Using the wrong discount rate to allocate a marine resource

Marine Resource Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 243-264

  Rowse, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discount rate choice; Dynamic optimization; Marine resources

Indexed keywords

EID: 37149047543     PISSN: 07381360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/mre.19.2.42629431     Document Type: Article

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