Cost-sharing and private timber stand improvements: A two-step estimation approach

Forest Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 44-54

  Ovaskainen, Ville ^a   Hänninen, Harri ^a   Mikkola, Jarmo ^a   Lehtonen, Emmi ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest policy instruments; Nonindustrial private forest owners; Probit model; Tobit model; Two period model

Indexed keywords

COSTS; INVESTMENTS; PLANNING; PUBLIC POLICY;

FOREST POLICY INSTRUMENTS; PROBIT MODEL; TOBIT MODEL; TWO-PERIOD MODEL;

TIMBER;

COSTS; FORESTS; INVESTMENT;

EID: 33644506493     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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