Socioeconomic factors influencing global paper and paperboard demand
| Autor: | Hiroyasu Oka, Taiyo Chiba, Chihiro Kayo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Engineering
media_common.quotation_subject Corrugated fiberboard 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Agricultural economics law.invention Biomaterials Kuznets curve law education 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common 040101 forestry Paperboard education.field_of_study Variables Writing paper business.industry 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Gift wrapping visual_art Newsprint visual_art.visual_art_medium 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries business Panel data |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Wood Science. 63:539-547 |
| ISSN: | 1611-4663 1435-0211 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10086-017-1648-x |
| Popis: | To clarify the socioeconomic factors influencing global paper and paperboard demand, a panel data analysis was conducted covering the period 1961–2014. This study used paper and paperboard demand as the dependent variable, and a country’s economic level, Internet usage rate, plastic packaging demand, and time trend as the explanatory variables. An inverse U-shaped quadratic relationship, such as an environmental Kuznets curve, was found between economic level and paper and paperboard demand, which saturates and begins to decline as economic level increases. The economic level representing the turning point differs significantly with the use, ranging from around 37,000 US$/person for newsprint paper to around 66,000 US$/person for printing and writing paper. For both newsprint paper and printing and writing paper, demand declines owing to the spread of the Internet as the economic level rises, although this reductive effect is greater for printing and writing paper than for newsprint paper. A substitution relationship is not found between wrapping paper and corrugated cardboard on the one hand and plastic packaging on the other hand as the economic level becomes higher. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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