Optimal timing of a mine expansion: Implementing a real options model

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 38, Issue 3 Part.1, 1998, Pages 755-769

  Cortazar, Gonzalo ^a   Casassus, Jaime ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032324574     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1062-9769(99)80100-8     Document Type: Article

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