Carlen, Ola
- Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
This paper is an attempt to measure the supply consequences of the thinning subsidy which was in operation during the cutting season 1979/80. The econometric analyses are based on a questionnaire to a sample of 2500 private non-industrial forest owners, which was produced by the official Swedish investigation SOU 1981: 81. The analyses show that it is questionable whether the subsidy did affect the total cut. The estimates of the supply increase range from an average of zero to 122 m(3)/owner. As a by-product we obtain estimates of the price elasticity of the private non-industrial forest owners supply curve. These estimates range from 0.63 to 1.69.
Keywords
private non-industrial forest owners; timber supply; Tobit model; thinning subsidies
Published in
Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research
1986, volume: 1, number: 1-4, pages: 379-386
SLU Authors
Löfgren, Karl-Gustaf
- Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
UKÄ Subject classification
Forest Science
Economics
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02827588609382430
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/42619