A restricted Leontief profit function model of the Canadian lumber and chip industry: Potential impacts of US countervail and Kyoto ratification

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1833-1844

  Williamson, T ^a   Hauer, G ^b   Luckert, M K ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; ENERGY POLICY; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

ENERGY PRICES; PRODUCTION DECISION; PROFIT FUNCTION MODELS;

LUMBER;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; KYOTO PROTOCOL; MODEL; PROFITABILITY; TIMBER INDUSTRY;

CHIPS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; LUMBER; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 84983724151     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X04-058     Document Type: Article

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