Generalization of Faustmann's formula for stochastic forest growth and prices with Markov decision process models

Forest Science

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 466-474

  Buongiorno, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Economics; Markov chain; Optimization; Risk

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PUBLIC POLICY;

FOREST VALUES;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0035152253     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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