Acquisition of a Forest Estate: A Stochastic Optimization Approach for Financing and Management

Forest Science

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 706-718

  Rutegård, Gunnar ^a   Lönnstedt, Lars ^b   Kallio, Markku ^c  

^a National Land Survey   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Financial management; Forestry acquisition; Real options; Stochastic optimization

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; INVESTMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; TIMBER;

FOREST ESTATES;

FORESTRY;

EID: 19244387282     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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