Discount rate and harvest policy: Implications for Baltic forestry

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 143-156

  Brukas, Vilis ^a   Jellesmark Thorsen, Bo ^a   Helles, Finn ^a   Tarp, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Discounting; Economic analysis; Lithuanian forestry; Transition economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009354880     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-9341(01)00050-8     Document Type: Article

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