Hammar, Henrik (National Institute of Economic Research) Lundgren, Tommy () (Department of Forest Economics) Sjöström, Magnus () (National Institute of Economic Research)
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Environmental and transport policies based on marginal external costs, such as a kilometer tax for heavy goods vehicles, can be constrained by the risk of industries incurring higher production costs than competi-tors in other countries. However, the significance and size of this cost is largely an empirical question. We estimate factor demand elasticities in the wood and the pulp and paper industries using firm level data for the 1990-2001 period on input prices and quantities. The results show that the introduction of a kilometer tax for heavy goods vehicles affects transport demand as well as other factor demands and output, but that the ef-fects are less pronounced in terms of changes in output. In the wood industry, production decreases by be-tween 0.6 % and 3.0 %. The corresponding decrease in the pulp and paper industry is between 0.4 % and 1.3 %. The effects on average profits are small in both industries.
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Length: 19 pages Date of creation: 01 Dec 2006 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:hhs:nierwp:0097
Note: Hammar, H. Lundgren, T. & Sjöström, M. (2008) “The significance of road transport costs in Swedish forest industry” is published in Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 42(1): 83–104 Contact details of provider: Postal: National Institute of Economic Research, P.O. Box 3116, SE-103 62 Stockholm, Sweden Phone: 46-(0)8-453 59 00 Fax: 46-(0)8-453 59 80 Email: Web page: http://www.konj.se/ More information through EDIRC
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