The stochastic implications of rent maximization: an application to stumpage rates for timber in British Columbia
租金最大化的随机含义:不列颠哥伦比亚木材立木费率的应用
Abstract We construct a model of rent‐maximizing behaviour by a single seller of timber in the absence of a formal market, deriving the stochastic implications of rent maximization for timber prices (stumpage rates) when other input and output (lumber) prices are random. Subsequently, we examine the model's ability to describe monthly, time‐series, stumpage‐rate data from British Columbia, Canada between January 1979 and October 1999. Deviations of stumpage rates from their…