Optimal harvesting of forest age classes under price uncertainty and risk aversion

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 557-585

  Tahvonen, Olli ^a   Kallio, Markku ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Finland)

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EID: 37249049515     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2006.tb00194.x     Document Type: Article

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