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Assessing the Investment Performance of Swedish Timberland: A Capital Asset Pricing Model Approach

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This paper evaluates the investment performance of Swedish timberland during the last three decades using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Results suggests that Swedish timberland investments show diversification potential and can serve as a hedge against inflation. Furthermore, the analysis suggests that the return on timberland is higher than on investment alternatives in the same risk class. The results are in line with similar studies performed in other countries.

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  • Tommy Lundgren, 2005. "Assessing the Investment Performance of Swedish Timberland: A Capital Asset Pricing Model Approach," Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 81(3).
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:landec:v:81:y:2005:i:3:p353-362
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    2. Parajuli, Rajan & Chang, Sun Joseph, 2015. "Real Assets and Inflation: Which Real Assets Hedge Inflation," 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California 205283, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    3. Hyytiainen, Kari & Penttinen, Markku, 2008. "Applying portfolio optimisation to the harvesting decisions of non-industrial private forest owners," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 10(3), pages 151-160, January.
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    5. Mats, Andersson & Gong, Peichen, 6. "Risk Preferences, Risk Perceptions and Timber Harvest Decisions – An Empirical Study of NIPF Owners in Northern Sweden," Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics, Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics, issue 42, April.

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    • D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Theory
    • Q23 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Forestry

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