Measuring scale, technology and price effects on value-added production across Canadian forest industry sectors

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 333-344

  Lantz, Van ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian forest industry; Network scale; Operational scale; Price effects; Technique effect; Value added

Indexed keywords

CANADIAN FOREST INDUSTRY; FOREST INDUSTRY; RESOURCE COSTS; VALUE-ADDED PRODUCTION;

COSTS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; PUBLIC POLICY;

FORESTRY;

COSTS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRY; FORESTS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 13444257984     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-9341(03)00074-1     Document Type: Article

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