Alternative price expectations regimes in timber markets

Journal of Forest Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 235-251

  Gomez, Irma A ^a   Love, H Alan ^b   Burton, Diana M ^b  

^a SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Price expectations; Price variance; Risk aversion; Timber markets; Timber producers

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY PRODUCTION; MARKET CONDITIONS; PRICE DYNAMICS; TIMBER MARKET;

EID: 0032741163     PISSN: 11046899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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