Comparative analysis of stochastic models for financial uncertainty in forest management

Forest Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 755-766

  Yoshimoto, A ^a   Shoji, I ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forest economics; Forest management; Price uncertainty; Stochastic calculus; Stochastic model

Indexed keywords

FINANCE; FORECASTING; LINEARIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

PRICE DYNAMICS; STATE-DEPENDENT VOLATILITY;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0036847409     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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