...Dawit Guta; Harry Nelson; Hugh Scorah Most studies of forest productivity in Canada have focused on a single product or a few provinces and most are outdated and do not reflect recent structural and technological changes. This paper addresses this gap by analyzing annual panel data from 2004...

... production technologies. They are quantity-based techniques. Non-marketed outputs such as pollutants can be easily incorporated into productivity analysis with the help of distance functions. This environmentally sensitive approach provides higher productivity growth estimates for all regions, indicating...