Estimating Armington elasticities for sawnwood and application to the French Forest Sector Model

Alexandre Sauquet, Franck Lecocq (), Philippe Delacote, Sylvain Caurla, Ahmed Barkaoui () and Serge Garcia

Resource and Energy Economics, 2011, vol. 33, issue 4, 771-781

Abstract: Domestic and foreign forest products consumptions are considered imperfectly substitutable in the French Forest Sector Model (FFSM). This assumption is justified by product heterogeneities that depend on production places, by the consumers habits or by the market structure. It leads us to implement the international trade in the FFSM via the Armington's theory of the demand for products distinguished by place of production. In this paper we propose a calibration of Armington's elasticities of substitution between French and foreign forest products. System-GMM estimators are applied to identify robust parameters using a panel data from France customs service.

Keywords: Armington elasticities; International timber trade; Forest Sector Modeling; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C15 Q23 Q28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2011.04.001

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