An economic analysis of a storage policy after a storm occurrence in forestry

Julien Jacob, Antoine Leblois and Marielle Brunette

Working Papers of BETA from Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg

Abstract: Storm is among the main threat for European forestry generating huge economic damage. The decrease of the timber price due to the storm occurrence largely contributes to these economic impacts. Timber storage appears as the standard policy to implement in order to limit these negative impacts. Consequently, in this article, we propose a global economic assessment of a storage policy taking into account the impacts on producers, consumers and the cost of public funds. For that purpose, we develop a tractable theoretical model which assesses welfare losses and gains incurred/earned by all agents of the society (forester (supply), consumers (downstream agents), and the public agent), from the storage. The model is then simulated. Our results show that globally, the storage policy is always desirable except for the consumers in the case of storms associated with a low magnitude.

Keywords: risk; price; forest; storage. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 Q23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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