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The Office National des Forêts (ONF) in France uses sequential auctions to sell a significant portion of timber from public forests. This mechanism, based on a competitive dynamic between buyers, relies on randomization at two key moments: at the start of the sale, to determine the order in which timber lots are auctioned, and at the end, to break...
Le système d’enchères est, depuis des siècles, bien adapté aux spécificités du marché du bois. Mais il est aussi accusé d’être à l’origine du manque de compétitivité de l’appareil de transformation français, et de pertes de revenus pour les propriétaires des forêts publiques. Pour répondre à ces critiques, les contrats de gré à gré se sont multipli...
“Fair” Price and Professional Reputation: a Double Challenge for Public Timber Auctions
In France, the fixing of prices of public timber lots, sold during auctions by the National Forests Office (
Onf
), is problematic due to the lots’ singularity. Based on an ethnographic study, this article shows that auctions lead the participants to come to a...
The Embedding and De-embedding Process of Public Timber Auctions
This article analyses the dynamics of the embedment/(dis)embedment process at work in French public timber auctions. It presents the different conditions and forms of coordination created by local buyers to share lots and batches. However, we show that under the influence of economic...
The ONF’s sales catalogue
The auction sales of public forests in France mainly concern standing or processed timber by lump sum. This particularity means that buyers often have to go and see the timber themselves in order to estimate the value of the lots that on the day of the sale are physically absent. This gives rise to high transaction costs a...
The Art to organize timber auctions. The auction sales of public timber are not just about agents’ rational calculations, who – beneath the sales director’s impassive / detached eyes – anonymously confront their bids and demands. The sale requires that participants take part in a sort of a show, which is influenced, among other things, by the actio...
The auction sales of public forests in France mainly concern standing or processed timber by lump sum. This particularity means that buyers often have to go and see the timber themselves in order to estimate the value of the lots that on the day of the sale are physically absent. This gives rise to high transaction costs and obliges the ONF to gene...
De tout temps la forêt publique est apparue, en France, comme une ressource financière stratégique pour les autorités en charge de leur gestion, justifiant face au risque de collusion le recours au système d’enchères. L’article propose, à partir d’une enquête de terrain, d’étudier les pratiques coopératives mises en oeuvre par les acheteurs durant...
The Art to organize timber auctions. The auction sales of public timber are not just about agents’ rational calculations, who – beneath the sales director’s impassive / detached eyes – anonymously confront their bids and demands. The sale requires that participants take part in a sort of a show, which is influenced, among other things, by the actio...
Les ventes aux enchères de bois public ne se réduisent pas au calcul froid des agents walrasiens qui, sous le regard détaché du directeur de vente, confronteraient de façon anonyme leurs offres et leurs demandes. Elles impliquent la réalisation de la part des acteurs d’un jeu scénique influencé entre autre par les éléments de « décor ». Loin de la...
La thèse porte sur la problématique de la mise en vente des bois publics. À partir d’une étude réalisée sur la région Lorraine, nous identifions tout d’abord les conditions d’encastrement de ces ventes, considérant que les comportements des participants sont déterminés par l’interaction complexe de facteurs économiques, socio-structuraux, politique...
This thesis focuses on the choice of methods for selling public timber. Based on a study carried out in Lorraine, we have identified the conditions of the embeddedness of auctions, considering that during the exchanges actors are influenced by the complex interaction of economic, socio-structural, politic, cognitive, formal and informal institution...
A travers cette thèse nous apportons un éclairage sociologique au débat engagé depuis des décennies sur la problématique de la mise en vente des bois publics. A ce titre, nous étudions, dans la première partie de la thèse, le système d’enchères qui reste encore le principal mode de vente utilisé par l’Office National des Forêts. Nous identifions le...
This article suggests to apply the evolution of the merchant institutions used to sell public timber, with reference to the theory of “Path Dependence”. First we present, in a socio-economic perspective, the features which led, since the 17th century, to the appearance of a path dependence situation around the auction. Then we describe the exogenou...
This socio-economic study aims to better understand the functioning and the evolution of timber sales held by the French public forest service. The auction system is the historical institution which has been used for timber sales in France for centuries. The recent trend to develop supply contracts through private agreements has a major impact on t...
The rules for selling timber originating from French public forests are set by a specific law, which in the course of history has granted a central role to the auction system. For centuries, and until recently, this sales mechanism was the only one that ensured the distribution of timber. However, due to the lack of competitiveness in the French ti...
This article suggests applying ,the “path dependence” ,and “path breaking” concepts to the study of merchant institutions through which timber is sold in France. The aim isto analyze the consequences of a new law on the timber processing industry. First, we remind,the features which ,led to the ,appearance ,of a ,path dependence ,situation around a...
The evolution of the French Public Timber Sales Mechanisms: Between Path Dependence and Path Breaking This article suggests applying the “path dependence” and “path breaking” concepts to the study of merchant institutions through which timber is sold in France. The aim is to analyze the consequences of a new law on timber industry. First we remind,...
This paper, taking a socio-economic perspective, aims to better understand France's historical persistence in using auction to sell public timber. It focuses on the necessity to consider the evolution of merchant rules as the result of a social construction - wherein past choices influence the future - rather than a simple economic "cost - advantag...
The Laboratory of Forestry economics (LEF) was created in 2000 as a joint research unit of the French Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (ENGREF) and the National Institute of Agronomic research (INRA). The mission of the LEF is to conceive, develop, and transfer methods and tools of economic analysis to improve the m...
This socio-economic study aims to better understand the functioning and the evolution of timber sales held by the French public forest service. The auction system is the historical institution which has been used for timber sales in France for centuries. The recent trend to develop supply contracts through private agreements has a major impact on t...
Describing economic phenomena remains complicated because market exchanges are attached to a specific social context. Therefore, it seems relevant to apply an interdisciplinary strategy in order to explain the observed reality. The approaches supplied by New Institutional Economics, Socio-Economy and Economic Sociology partake of this desire to con...
The Laboratory of Forestry economics (LEF) was created in 2000 as a joint research unit of the French Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Environment al Engineering (ENGREF) and the National Institute of Agronomic research (INRA). The mission of the LEF is to conceive, develop, and transfer methods and to ols of economic analysis to improve the...
