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Abstract
The paper presents an econometric analysis of the timber supply in ten
Northwestern European countries. For each country, the time series covers
the years 1980 - 2006. Several factors, in addition to the log price and the
growing stock, are analysed, to study the elasticity of supply. Three
different models were tried, with common and individual slope and intercept
coefficients. Pooled OLS estimation of the fully homogeneous model gave
significance of all coefficients. We met difficulties of finding consistent
estimators of all coefficients while estimating the model with homogenous
slope coefficients and heterogeneous intercept. The OLS and GLS
estimators are not consistent due to correlation between the explanatory
variables and the latent country-specific effect. Probably because of low
variation within countries, within-estimators (fixed effects) / Hausman-
Taylor estimators are not appropriate instruments, they gave negative
estimates of the price coefficient. OLS of the fully heterogeneous model
resulted in wrong sign of many estimates. The elasticity of supply with
respect to price and growing stock for all countries as a whole was in the
pooled OLS found to be 0.14 and 0.88, respectively.