Daowei Zhang

Alumni and George W. Peake Jr. Professor
          Forest Economics and Policy

• BS South-central Forestry University, Forestry
• MS Beijing Forestry University, Forest Economics
• PhD University of British Columbia, Forest Economics

Experience

• Alumni and George W. Peake Professor of Forest Economics and Policy - 2011 -
• Assistant/Associate/Full Professor 1994-2011 at Auburn University conducting research on property rights and environmental regulations (Endangered Species Act, ESA), assessing ESA related policy proposals, US-Canada forest products trade, government policy and forest industry investment location, forest finance.
• Policy Analyst, Ministry of Forestry, Beijing.
• Research Assistant, Lakehead University School of Forestry.

Research Interests

• Institutional timberland investment
• Urbanization, public taxation policy, and forest land use in the southern U.S.
• Policy Process
• Determinants of foreign direct investment in forest industry
• Forest products trade
• International forestry
  
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Selected Publications

• Godwin, Joseph, and D. Zhang. 2012. Political Pressure: An Examination of U.S. Senators' Actions in Restricting Canadian Softwood Lumber Imports. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics.
• Meng, L., and D. Zhang. 2012. Impacts of Property Tax on Land Use Change Decisions in Georgia. Urban Ecosystems.
• Nagubadi, R., and D. Zhang. 2011. Bilateral Foreign Direct Investment in Forest Industry between the U. S. and Canada. Forest Policy and Economics 13(5): 338-344.
• Sun, Xing, and D. Zhang. 2011. An Event Analysis of Industrial Timberland Sales on Shareholder Values of Major U.S. Forest Products Firms. Forest Policy and Economics 13(5): 396-401.
• Majumdar, S., D. Zhang, and Y. Zhang. 2011. Estimating Regional Softwood Lumber Supply in the United States Using Seemingly Unrelated Regression. Forest Products Journal 60(7/8): 709-714.
• Zhang, D., and M. Polyakov. 2010. The Geographical Distribution of Plantation Forests and Land Resources Potentially Available for Pine Plantation in the U.S. South. Biomass and Bioenery 34(12):1631-1642.
• Nagubadi, R., and D. Zhang. 2010. Urbanization Effects of Timberland Ownership Class: A Modified Multinomial Logit Analysis. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 34(3):101-109.
• Nagubadi, R., H. Thompson, and D. Zhang. 2009. Productivity, Imports, and Softwood Lumber Dispute Phases. International Trade Journal 23(3): 301-324.
• Zhang, D., and Y. Li. 2009. Forest Endowment, Logging Restrictions, and China's Wood Products Trade. China Economic Review 20: 46-53.
• Polyakov, M., and D. Zhang. 2008. Population Gravity and Land Use Change at Watershed Level. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 40(2): 649-666.
• Li, Y., D. Zhang, and R. Nagubadi. 2008. Productivity in the U.S. and Canadian Sawmill Industries: A Nonparametric Programming Analysis. Forest Products Journal 58(12): 33-40.
• Nagubadi, R., and D. Zhang. 2008. Foreign direct investment outflows in the forest products industry: the case of the United States and Japan. International Forestry Review 10(4): 632-640.
• Zhang, D., H. Wang, and J. Cao. 2008. An Analysis of China's Forest Resource Valuation Guidelines: In Comparison and Contrast with A Legal Case in the United States. Forest Economics (in Chinese) 189: 74-79.
• Li, Y., and D. Zhang. 2008. A Spatial Panel Data Analysis of Tree Planting in the U.S. South. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry. 31(4): 175-182.
• Polyakov. M., and D. Zhang. 2007. Property Tax and Land Use Changes. Land Economics, 84(3): 396-408.
• Zhang, D., and E. Owiredu. 2007. Land Tenure, Market and the Establishment of Forest Plantations in Ghana. Forest Policy and Economics
• Nagubadi, R., and D. Zhang. 2006. Production Structure and Input Substitution in Canadian Sawmill and Wood Preservation Industry. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 3007-3014.
• Zhang, D., and R. Nagubadi. 2006. Total Factor Productivity Growth in Sawmills and Wood Preservation Industry in the U.S. and Canada: A Comparative Study. Forest Science 52(5): 511-521.
• Li, Y., and D. Zhang. 2006. Incidence of the 1996 U.S.-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement among Landowners, Loggers, and Lumber Manufacturers in the U.S. South. Forest Science: 52(4): 422-431.
• Nagubadi, R., and D. Zhang. 2006. Competitiveness in the Sawmills and Wood Preservation Industry in the United States and Canada. Forest Science 52(4):340-352.
• Sun, C., and D. Zhang. 2006. Timber Harvesting Margins in the South U.S.: A Temporal and Spatial Analysis. Forest Science 52(2): 273-280.
• Laband, D., and D. Zhang. 2006. Citations, Publications, and Perceptions-Based Rankings of the Research Impact of North American Forestry Programs. Journal of Forestry 104(5): 254-261.
• Zhang, D., J. Liu, J. Granskog, and J. Gan. 1998. China: Changing Wood Products Markets. Forest Products Journal 49 (6): 14-20.
• Zhang, D., S. Warren, and C. Bailey. 1998. The Role of Assistance Foresters on Nonindustrial Private Forest Management: Alabama
  Landowners' Perspective. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 22 (2): 101-05.
• Binkley, C.S., and D. Zhang. 1998. The Impact of Timber-Fee Increases on B.C. Forest Products Companies: An Economic and Policy Analysis. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28 (4): 617-35.
• Zhang, D. and P.H. Pearse. 1997. the influence of the form of tenure on reforestation in British Columbia. Forest Ecology and Management,
  98(1997)239-250.
• Zhang, D. 1997. Inward and Outward Foreign Investment: The Case of U.S. Forest Industry. Forest Products Journal 47 (5): 29-35.
• Zhang, D. and P.H. Pearse.1996. Differences in silvicultural investment under various types of forest tenure in British Columbia. Forest Science,
  42(4): 442-449.
• Zhang, D. 1996. State Property Rights Laws: What, Where, And How? Journal of Forestry 94 (4): 10-15.