Optimal Forest Policies in an Overlapping Generations Economy with Timber Bequests

G.S. Amacher, Erkki Koskela and M. Ollikainen

University of Helsinki, Department of Economics from Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper studies optimal forest policies in an overlapping generations forest economy with one-sided altruism and public goods, where timber and monetary bequests can be made across generations. We extend the existing economics literature by demonstrating that timber bequests can dominate money bequests in many situations, and that timber bequests may even by operative in dynamically inefficient steady states.

Keywords: GENERATIONS; TAXATION; ALTRUISM; BEQUESTS; FORESTS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D64 H21 H23 Q23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2000
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