This paper analyses the effects of price and market size variables on the investment propensities in the pulp and paper industry. A panel of 15 European countries in the time period 1984 - 1997 is used in the regression analysis. We find the wages, the US/ECU exchange rate, the price of paper and the installed production capacity to be the main determinants of strategic investments in this industry. Our measure of market size have no - or only very small - effects.
Working Paper No. 536
Strategic Investments in the Pulp and Paper Industry: A Count Data Regression Analysis
Working Paper
Reference
Bergman, Mats and Per Johansson (2000). “Strategic Investments in the Pulp and Paper Industry: A Count Data Regression Analysis”. IFN Working Paper No. 536. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).
Bergman, Mats and Per Johansson (2000). “Strategic Investments in the Pulp and Paper Industry: A Count Data Regression Analysis”. IFN Working Paper No. 536. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).
Authors
Mats Bergman,
Per Johansson