Abstract
This chapter provides the information necessary to use the global forest products model (GFPM) software and to modify the database and the parameters. The chapter discusses the steps required to install the GFPM, interpret the base-year input data, which GFPM uses to forecast production, consumption, imports, exports, and prices, run the GFPM from the GFPM Menu, interpret the projection output from the GFPM, and carry out a welfare analysis from two GFPM scenarios. The GFPM requires a PC, at least 8 MB of RAM, and the Windows NT, Windows 2000, or Windows XP operating system. The GFPM uses the PELPS IV (price endogenous linear programming system) software, a general economic modeling system. Base year is the year from which the projections begin. The GFPM uses Microsoft Excel to organize base-year input data. The welfare analysis component of the GFPM allows estimation of welfare impacts of an alternative scenario compared with a base scenario.
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