Shipping market models and the specification of freight rate processes

Maritime Economics and Logistics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 327-346

  Tvedt, Jostein ^a,b,c  

^a Den Norske Kreftforening   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Norway)

^c DnB Markets   (Norway)

Author keywords

Equilibrium models; Freight rate processes; Mean reversion; Optimal switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642458393     PISSN: 14792931     EISSN: 1479294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.mel.9100085     Document Type: Article

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