Applying Four Different Risk Models in Local Ore Selection

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 299-314

  Richmond, Andrew ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Certainty equivalence; Dominance models; Portfolio theory; Utility

Indexed keywords

EID: 3543142711     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021102129318     Document Type: Article

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