A Hotelling-Faustmann explanation of the structure of christmas tree prices

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 513-525

  Vukina, Tomislav ^a   Hilmer, Christiana E ^b   Lueck, Dean ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital theory; Discrete time optimal control; Uneven aged forest management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009353418     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0002-9092.00174     Document Type: Article

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