Assessing the Impact of Export Taxes on Canadian Softwood Lumber

Joy Begley, John Hughes, Judy Rayburn and David Runkle

Canadian Journal of Economics, 1998, vol. 31, issue 1, 207-219

Abstract: This study examines stock price reactions, for both U.S. and Canadian softwood-lumber producers, to a series of events culminating in the 1986 Memorandum of Understanding under which Canada agreed to impose a 15 percent export tariff on lumber shipped to the United States. The authors' results indicate that a number of these events were accompanied by significant reactions in directions consistent with their priors. Notwithstanding that the events in question pertained principally to the prospects of a tariff, it is possible that these events also had implications for the outcome of free trade negotiations in progress during this time frame. Coauthors are John Hughes, Judy Rayburn, and David Runkle.

JEL-codes: F42 H25 Q23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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