Cost and rents to logging in the Brazilian Amazon

dc.contributor.authorBauch, Simone Carolinaen
dc.contributor.committeechairAmacher, Gregory S.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMerry, Frank D.en
dc.contributor.committeememberTaylor, Daniel B.en
dc.contributor.departmentForestryen
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-06T16:02:46Zen
dc.date.adate2004-08-05en
dc.date.available2011-08-06T16:02:46Zen
dc.date.issued2002-05-10en
dc.date.rdate2006-08-05en
dc.date.sdate2004-06-09en
dc.description.abstractThe logging industry of the Amazon is a topic that has received little attention in the literature, beyond specific single firm case studies. This has not allowed estimation of cost and production functions that can be used to predict changes in the industry in response to external market factors or government policies. Cost functions and rents are very important to characterize the dynamics of industry behavior, as well as providing important information for future policies. This study relies on a survey of 527 firms to estimate harvest, transportation, and milling cost functions for the logging industry in the Brazilian Amazon, finding variables such as labor cost, distance from the forest to the sawmill, equipment and frontier type to significantly affect the total and marginal cost of each activity. Rents are also estimated for different sampled milling centers, and a cost minimizing mathematical programming model is presented that explains the advance of the logging frontier in Brazil.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.otheretd-06092004-112003en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06092004-112003en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/10048en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartBauch_Thesis2.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectBrazilen
dc.subjectlogging industryen
dc.subjectcost functionsen
dc.subjectAmazonen
dc.subjectrentsen
dc.titleCost and rents to logging in the Brazilian Amazonen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineForestryen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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