Search Results - subject:"Log exports"

When a ban is not a ban: The case of British Columbia's log export restrictions

Wood, Joel - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 2, pp. 1071-1075

results of a recently published paper on the topic rely on two key assumptions. They assumed BC has a ban on log exports and … that any incremental BC log exports will not affect the world price for logs. This note uses the same data, but a more … nuanced model, to show that from BC's perspective unlimited log exports is not necessarily preferred to a policy allowing …

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Is Free Trade the End All Be All? The Case of Log Exports

van Kooten, Gerrit Cornelis - Department of Economics, University of Victoria - 2014

The government of British Columbia imposes restrictions on the export of logs from public and private forestlands, primarily to promote local processing and associated employment benefits. Economists wholeheartedly oppose BC’s export restrictions, arguing that BC’s citizens are worse off as...

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Switzerland; Selected Issues Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2011

The paper assesses the competitiveness of Swiss exporters, and shows that the effect of nominal exchange rate on trade balance depends on the degree of exchange rate pass-through and on trade elasticities. It highlights that the degree of exchange rate pass-through should also be factored in...

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Benefits and costs of impeding free trade: Revisiting British Columbia's restrictions on log exports

Kooten, G. Cornelis van - In: Journal of Forest Economics 20 (2014) 4, pp. 333-347

The government of British Columbia (BC) imposes restrictions on the export of logs from public and private forestlands, primarily to promote local processing and associated employment benefits. Most economists wholeheartedly oppose BC's export restrictions, arguing that BC's citizens are worse...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011116782

Benefits and costs of impeding free trade : revisiting British Columbia's restrictions on log exports

Van Kooten, Gerrit C. - In: Journal of forest economics : JFE 20 (2014) 4, pp. 333-347

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Ghana; Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2000

This paper reviews trends in GDP and other macroeconomic variables since independence. It assesses the performance of the different sectors of the economy and expenditure categories. The paper identifies a number of products that could contribute to maintaining the high growth rate that...

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