When a ban is not a ban: The case of British Columbia's log export restrictions

Joel Wood ()

Economics Bulletin, 2015, vol. 35, issue 2, 1071-1075

Abstract: This paper uses a partial equilibrium trade model to evaluate British Columbia's (BC) log export restrictions. The results of a recently published paper on the topic rely on two key assumptions. They assumed BC has a ban on log exports and that any incremental BC log exports will not affect the world price for logs. This note uses the same data, but a more nuanced model, to show that from BC's perspective unlimited log exports is not necessarily preferred to a policy allowing limited log exports.

Keywords: Log exports; natural resource export restrictions; trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 Q0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-04-22
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