A three-stage game including investments, environmental quality provision and price competition is developed to study the impact of green technology investment (ecolabeling), in a duopoly model of vertical product differentiation. The firms’ incentives to invest in green technologies depend on...

This paper studies optimal forest policies in an overlapping generations forest economy with one-sided altruism, where timber and monetary bequests can be made across generations and forest amenities are a public good. We extend the existing economics literature by demonstrating that timber...

A brief history of forest economics thought -- The Faustmann rotation model -- Hartman models of timber and amenity production -- Two period life cycle models -- Socially optimal forest policy design -- Deforestation: models and policy instruments -- Biodiversity conservation in boreal and...