Abstract:T his paper provides a continuous-tim e "R icardian" m odel of forestry, w here, in response to an increase in tim ber dem an d, forest cultivation is progressively intensified on the m ost fertile lands and/or extended to less fertile qualities of lands. It is show n that, at a given level of the rate of interest, a set of "break-through tim ber prices" gives the order of fertility (i.e., the order in w hich the different qualities of land are taken into cultivation) and that, for each land, prices of standin… Show more
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