Dr. Bin "Richard" Mei
Dr. Bin "Richard" Mei
Faculty
Assistant Professor
Forest Finance and Economics
Research Interests
Financial performance of timberland investments
Market analysis of the forest products industry
Forest business decision making under uncertainty
Background
Education
PhD, Forest Finance, University of Georgia, 2010
MS, Forest Economics, Mississippi State University, 2007
MS, Management Science, Beijing Forestry University, 2005
BS, Economics, Beijing Forestry University, 2002
Courses
FORS 7710: Advanced Forest Economics, (Fall 2011)
FORS 7780: Forest Finance, Accounting and Taxation, (Fall Yearly)
FORS 7790: Forest Finance Decision-Making, (Spring Yearly)
Publications
Mei, B and Clutter, M. 2010. Evaluating the financial performance of timberland investments in the United States. Forest Science 56(5):421-428.
Mei, B; Clutter, M; and Harris, T. 2010. Modeling and forecasting pine sawtimber stumpage prices in the U.S. South by various time series models. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40(8):1506-1516.
Mei, B and Sun, C. 2008. Accessing time-varying oligopsony and oligopoly power in the U.S. paper industry. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 40(3):927-939.
Mei, B and Sun, C. 2008. Event analysis of the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the financial performance of the US forest products industry. Forest Policy and Economics 10(5):286-294.
Publications cont'd
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Mei, B; Clutter, M; and Harris, T. 2013. Timberland return drivers and timberland returns and risks: A simulation approach. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry (In press).
Mei, B and Clutter, M. 2012. Valuing a timber harvest contract as a high-dimensional American call option via least-squares Monte Carlo simulation. Natural Resource Modeling (In press).
Wan, Y; Mei, B; Clutter, M; and Siry, J. 2012. Assessing the inflation hedging ability of timberland assets in the United States. Forest Science (In press).
Mei, B; Swinarski, D; Clutter, M; and Harris, T. 2011. Investment decisions of a new linerboard mill under market uncertainty. Journal of Forest Products Business Research 8:1-7.
Zhang, M; Mei, B; Harris, T; Siry, J; Clutter, M; and Baldwin, S. 2011. Can timber hedge against inflation? An analysis of timber prices in the US South. Forest Products Journal 61(4):276-282.

Monographs
Mei, B. Assessing Commercial Timberland Assets in the United States. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG, 2011.

Book Chapters
Mei, B and Clutter, M. Pricing Timberland Returns in the United States. Handbook of Financial Econometrics and Statistics. C.F. Lee ed. Springer, 2012.
Mei, B. Case Study: Timberland Investment in China. Alternative Alternatives: Risk, Returns and Investment Strategy. Blessing, S. ed. John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2011.
Mei, B; Cascio, A; Sun, C; and Clutter, M. Mergers and Acquisitions in the U.S. Forest Products Industry: Motives, Financing, and Impacts. Joint Ventures, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Capital Flow. Tobin, J and Parker, L. eds. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2009.

Magazine Articles
Mei, B and Clutter, M. 2012. Financial analysis in forest investment. Forest Landowner 71(1): 14-19.

Consulting Reports
Clutter, M; Abt, R; Greene, D; Siry, J; and Mei, B. 2010. Bioenergy project.
Clutter, M and Mei, B. 2008. Timberland investment project.

Memberships
Forest Products Society
NCREIF Academic Member
Society of American Foresters
Southern Forest Economics Workers
Xi Sigma Scientific Research Society
Xi Sigma Pi National Forestry Honor Society
Office:
528 Building 4
Phone: 706 542 5448
Fax: 706 542 8356