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Changes in the technology of harvesting timber in the United States: Some implications for labour

Jeffrey C. Stier
- 01 Dec 1982 - 
- Vol. 9, Iss: 4, pp 255-266
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In this paper, the parameters of the production technology for the United States timber harvesting industry were estimated from models based upon the production function and a flexible dual cost function, and the results were remarkably similar, and suggested that the constant elasticity of substitution (CES) production function was consistent with the data for the period 1951-1974.
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This article is published in Agricultural Systems.The article was published on 1982-12-01. It has received 7 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Constant elasticity of substitution & Production function.

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A stochastic frontier analysis of technical progress, efficiency change and productivity growth in the Pacific Northwest sawmill industry

TL;DR: In this article, a stochastic frontier analysis was employed to investigate technical efficiency and productivity growth in the sawmilling industry of the U.S. Pacific Northwest over the period 1968-2002.
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Welfare effects of forestry best management practices in the United States

TL;DR: In this paper, a Muth-type equilibrium displace-ment model was constructed to examine welfare changes of these stakeholders, and the model considered a two-stage ver- tical production system with variable proportion production technology.
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The Forest Sector: Important Innovations

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the tree-growing potential of plantations and found that there is a substantial shift away from the harvesting of old-growth forests and toward intensive forest plantations.
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A welfare analysis of China's tariffs on U.S. hardwood products

TL;DR: In this article, a two-stage partial equilibrium displacement model is applied to measure the vertical linkage between log and its secondary products, such as lumber and veneer, as well as the horizontal linkage between lumber and Veneer.
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Foundations of Economic Analysis

TL;DR: Recent statistical techniques, including nonlinear programming, have been added to a basic survey of equilibrium systems, comparative statistics, consumer behavior theory, and cost and production theory as discussed by the authors, and they have been used in a variety of applications.
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Theory of cost and production functions

TL;DR: In this article, a unified treatment of cost and production functions underlie the economic theory of production is presented, and the duality between cost function and production function is developed by introducing a cost correspondence, showing that these two functions are given in terms of each other by dual minimum problems.
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Capital-labor substitution and economic efficiency

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method to improve the quality of the service provided by the service provider by using the information of the user's interaction with the provider and the provider.
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Cost and production functions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a mathematical interpretation of the duality between cost and production function, and present a heuristic principle of minimum costs and a Cobb-Douglas production function.
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Technology, Prices, and the Derived Demand for Energy

TL;DR: In this article, an industrial demand for energy is essentially a derived demand: the firm's demand for the energy is an input, derived from demand for a firm's output, which is an output.
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