Gradual Land-use Change in New Zealand: Results from a Dynamic
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Rural land use is important for New Zealand’s economic and environmental outcomes. Using a
dynamic econometric model and recent New Zealand data, we estimate the response of land use
to changing economic returns as proxied by relevant commodity prices. Because New Zealand is
small, export prices are credibly exogenous. We show that land use responses can be slow. Our
result implies that policy-induced land-use change is likely to be slow or costly.