Estimating supply elasticity for disaggregated paper products: A primal approach

Forest Science

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 570-577

  Brown, Roger ^a   Zhang, Daowei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor demand elasticity; Newsprint; Output supply elasticity; Packaging paper; Tissue paper

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; NEWSPRINT; PAPER AND PULP INDUSTRY;

DISAGGREGATED PAPER PRODUCTS; PACKAGING PAPER (PP); PRINTING/WRITTING PAPER (PWP);

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; NEWSPRINT; PAPER INDUSTRY; PULP INDUSTRY;

EID: 29144518604     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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