Managing risk and uncertainty in complex capital projects

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 44, Issue 5 SPEC.ISS., 2004, Pages 751-767

  Alessandri, Todd M ^a   Ford, David N ^b   Lander, Diane M ^c   Leggio, Karyl B ^d   Taylor, Marilyn ^d  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital budgeting; Qualitative analysis; Real options; Scenario planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 17144380768     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2004.05.010     Document Type: Article

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