Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/76653 
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Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1082
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In this paper, we rank the relative importance of the exogenous parameters upon the optimal harvesting size in a stochastic rotation problem. We show that when the tree growth follows geometric Brownian motion, the harvesting size is most elastic to the harvesting cost, followed by the interest rate, and is least elastic to the parameters of tree growth. Similar ranking holds for the linear growth case. In both cases the harvesting size is increasing and concave in the harvesting cost, bounded between two parallel lines. The harvesting decision is made according to a stochastic extension of the Faustmann formula.
Subjects: 
stochastic rotation problem
the Faustmann formula
site value
homogeneity conditions
and seedling value
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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