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 off as a result of the government's measures. In this paper, it is shown that, while free trade in logs might well maximise global wellbeing, it might not necessarily result in the greatest benefit to BC. Indeed, both economic theory and a follow-up numerical analysis indicate that some restrictions on the export of logs can lead to higher welfare for BC than free trade. Thus, log export restrictions could be economically efficient from a local perspe...
The Canada-U.S. Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) was the latest measure to restrict Canadian exports ...
The tariff barrier protecting secondary manufacturing in Eastern Canada depresses the relative trade...
Barriers to interprovincial trade impose significant costs upon the Canadian economy, with Alvarez e...
The government of British Columbia (BC) imposes restrictions on the export of logs from public and p...
The government of British Columbia imposes restrictions on the export of logs from public and privat...
The restrictions imposed on the export of unmanufactured forest products from British Columbia are e...
The log export policy suggestion by Dumont and Wright (2006) is critically assessed in an effort to ...
Log exports have been an important issue for the forest industry of coastal British Columbia, which ...
The issue of log exports has been a topic of debate for decades in the Province of BC. With rising n...
The export log ban would have the same effect as imposing an export tax. Similar to the quota system...
British Columbia is one of the major log producers in Canada and is somewhat unique compared to the ...
The draft softwood lumber agreement reached with the United States on April 27, 2006 makes the best ...
The Pacific Northwest is a major exporter of unprocessed softwood logs to foreign countries, such as...
Forest product trade analysis is complicated by the inter-relationships among forest products. This ...
Illegal logging has become a global issue because of its effects on biodiversity and climate change....
The Canada-U.S. Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) was the latest measure to restrict Canadian exports ...
The tariff barrier protecting secondary manufacturing in Eastern Canada depresses the relative trade...
Barriers to interprovincial trade impose significant costs upon the Canadian economy, with Alvarez e...
The government of British Columbia (BC) imposes restrictions on the export of logs from public and p...
The government of British Columbia imposes restrictions on the export of logs from public and privat...
The restrictions imposed on the export of unmanufactured forest products from British Columbia are e...
The log export policy suggestion by Dumont and Wright (2006) is critically assessed in an effort to ...
Log exports have been an important issue for the forest industry of coastal British Columbia, which ...
The issue of log exports has been a topic of debate for decades in the Province of BC. With rising n...
The export log ban would have the same effect as imposing an export tax. Similar to the quota system...
British Columbia is one of the major log producers in Canada and is somewhat unique compared to the ...
The draft softwood lumber agreement reached with the United States on April 27, 2006 makes the best ...
The Pacific Northwest is a major exporter of unprocessed softwood logs to foreign countries, such as...
Forest product trade analysis is complicated by the inter-relationships among forest products. This ...
Illegal logging has become a global issue because of its effects on biodiversity and climate change....
The Canada-U.S. Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) was the latest measure to restrict Canadian exports ...
The tariff barrier protecting secondary manufacturing in Eastern Canada depresses the relative trade...
Barriers to interprovincial trade impose significant costs upon the Canadian economy, with Alvarez e...