Optimal harvesting under resource stock and price uncertainty

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2461-2485

  Alvarez, Luis H R ^a   Koskela, Erkki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Optimal harvesting; Single and sequential harvesting opportunity; Stochastic price and stock dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248643768     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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