Patricio Mac Donagh

TL;DR: In this article, the principal exotic and selected native species in the Southern Cone of Latin America and in the US South were estimated for the principal eucalyptus plantations, with internal rates of returns ranging from 13% to 23%.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimated financial returns and wood production costs in 2008 for the primary timber plantation species, including land costs, and found that returns for exotic plantations in almost all of South America (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, and Paraguay) were substantial.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Faustmann Formula was used to evaluate the effect of land prices, environmental regulations, and increased productivity on plantations' investment performance. But the authors focused on plantations in South America and did not examine the effects of other institutional, forestry, and policy factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimated timber investment returns for 22 countries and 54 management regimes in 2017, for a range of global timber plantation species and countries at the stand level, using capital budgeting criteria, without land costs, at a real discount rate of 8%.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed production and cost 'functions' for logging contractors working in Misiones and Corrientes (Argentina), Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and Uruguay.