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Several papers have now estimated the impact of climate change on national timber markets, but few studies have measured impacts globally. Further, the literature on impacts has focused heavily on changes in productivity and has not integrated movements of biomes as well. Here, a dynamic model...

The appropriate specifications for aggregate extraction and exploration cost functions are derived from a disaggregate model of the search for low-cost deposits of an exhaustible resource. The common practice of combining the no-discovery extraction cost function with exploration is shown to...

This study develops cumulative carbon “supply curves” for global forests utilizing an dynamic timber supply model for sequestration of forest carbon. Because the period of concern is the next century, and particular time points within that century, the curves are not traditional Marshallian...