Sunk costs and the natural resource extraction sector: Analytical models and historical examples of hysteresis and strategic behavior in the Americas

Land Economics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 429-448

  Barham, Bradford L ^a   Chavas, Jean Paul ^a   Coomes, Oliver T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYSTERESIS; METALS INDUSTRY; NATURAL RESOURCE; RUBBER; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

AMAZONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 0032454312     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3146877     Document Type: Article

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