Productivity and research and development in two Canadian forest product industries

Forest Science

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 487-497

  Mohnen, Pierre ^a,b   Jacques, Romain ^c   Gallant, Jean Sébastien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CIRANO   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

costs of adjustment; scale economies; Total factor productivity growth

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030443206     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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