Assessing the investment performance of Swedish timberland: A Capital Asset Pricing Model approach

Land Economics

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 353-362

  Lundgren, Tommy ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENT; LAND MARKET; RURAL ECONOMY; TIMBER INDUSTRY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

EID: 24744448461     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.81.3.353     Document Type: Article

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