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Economics and Finance
Finland
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
43
Citations
5696
World Ranking
1985
National Ranking
3

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Finland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Finland Leader Award

Overview

Olli Tahvonen is affiliated with the University of Helsinki in Finland and specializes in environmental science with a strong focus on forest management and policy. Their research spans various interconnected subjects within this field, addressing ecological, economic, and management aspects of forests.

Their main field of study is Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Mechanics of Materials, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Key topics of their work include:

  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
  • Bioenergy crop production and management
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology

Olli Tahvonen has published in several scientific journals, frequently contributing to the following venues:

  • Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Suomen Luontopaneelin julkaisuja
  • Resource and Energy Economics
  • Environmental and Resource Economics

Recent papers by Olli Tahvonen include:

  • "Reinforcement learning in optimizing forest management", 2021, Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • "Optimizing continuous cover and rotation forestry in mixed-species boreal forests", 2020, Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • "Optimal Carbon Storage in Mixed-Species Size-Structured Forests", 2021, Environmental and Resource Economics
  • "Predation costs and compensations in reindeer husbandry", 2020, Wildlife Biology
  • "Optimizing high-dimensional stochastic forestry via reinforcement learning", 2022, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Collaboration is a significant element of their research, and frequent co-authors include:

  • Vesa-Pekka Parkatti
  • Pekka Malo
  • Antti Suominen
  • Lauri Viitasaari
  • Antti-Juhani Pekkarinen

Best Publications

  • Economic growth, pollution, and renewable resources

    Olli Tahvonen;Jari Kuuluvainen

  • Economic growth and transitions between renewable and nonrenewable energy resources

    Olli Tahvonen;Seppo Salo

  • Even-Aged and Uneven-Aged Forest Management in Boreal Fennoscandia: A Review

    Timo Kuuluvainen;Olli Tahvonen;Tuomas Aakala

  • Fossil Fuels, Stock Externalities, and Backstop Technology

    Olli Ilari Tahvonen

  • Optimal management of uneven-aged Norway spruce stands

    Olli Tahvonen;Timo Pukkala;Olavi Laiho;Erkki Lähde

  • Optimal growth with renewable resources and pollution

    Olli Tahvonen;Jari Kuuluvainen

  • Economics of harvesting age-structured fish populations.

    Olli Tahvonen

  • GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE AND THE OPTIMAL TIME PATH OF A CARBON TAX

    Y. H. Farzin;O Tahvonen

  • Optimality of irreversible pollution accumulation

    O Tahvonen;Caam Cees Withagen

  • Transboundary air pollution and soil acidification: A dynamic analysis of an acid rain game between Finland and the USSR

    Veijo Kaitala;Matti Pohjola;Olli Tahvonen

  • Nonconvexities in Optimal Pollution Accumulation

    Olli Tahvonen;Seppo Salo

  • Can carbon tax eat OPEC's rents?

    Matti Liski;Olli Tahvonen

  • OPTIMAL CHOICE BETWEEN EVEN‐ AND UNEVEN‐AGED FORESTRY

    Olli Tahvonen

  • Carbon dioxide abatement as a differential game

    Olli Tahvonen

  • Optimal Forest Rotation with in Situ Preferences

    Olli Tahvonen;Seppo Salo

  • Optimality of continuous cover vs. clear-cut regimes in managing forest resources

    Olli Tahvonen;Janne Rämö

  • On the dynamics of renewable resource harvesting and pollution control

    Olli Tahvonen

  • On Equilibrium Cycles and Normal Forests in Optimal Harvesting of Tree Vintages

    Seppo Salo;Olli Tahvonen

  • Oligopoly Equilibria in Nonrenewable Resource Markets

    Seppo Salo;Olli Tahvonen

  • On the economics of forest vintages

    Seppo Salo;Olli Tahvonen

Frequent Co-Authors

Annikki Mäkelä
Annikki Mäkelä University of Helsinki
Larry S. Karp
Larry S. Karp University of California, Berkeley
Hans von Storch
Hans von Storch Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Timo Vesala
Timo Vesala University of Helsinki
Anders Lindroth
Anders Lindroth Lund University
Pertti Hari
Pertti Hari University of Helsinki
Marc Hanewinkel
Marc Hanewinkel University of Freiburg
Christian Möllmann
Christian Möllmann Universität Hamburg
Kalyanmoy Deb
Kalyanmoy Deb Michigan State University
Reinhart Ceulemans
Reinhart Ceulemans University of Antwerp

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