Valuing a forest as a call option: The sale of forestry corporation of New Zealand

Forest Science

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 32-39

  Hughes, Warren R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

And log price volatility; Black and Scholes formula; Call option pricing; Forest value sensitivity to cost of capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033973724     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/forestscience/46.1.32     Document Type: Article

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