Valuing the Impact of Large-Scale Ecological Change in a Market: The Effect of Climate Change on U.S. Timber

American Economic Review

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 686-710

  Sohngen, Brent ^a   Mendelsohn, Robert ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Yale University   (United States)

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