Optimal harvest policy with first-order autoregressive price process

Journal of Forest Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 413-439

  Gong, Peichen ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decision analysis; Even aged stand; Reservation price; Stochastic optimization; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY POLICY; HARVESTING; PRICE DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033377852     PISSN: 11046899     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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