Value based trading of real assets in shipping under stochastic freight rates

Applied Economics

Volumn 41, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 2793-2807

  Sødal, Sigbojørn ^a   Koekebakker, Steen ^a   Adland, Roar ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b Clarkson Fund Management Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK CARRIER; ECONOMETRICS; ESTIMATION METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SHIPPING; STOCHASTICITY; TANKER SHIP; TRANSACTION COST; VALUATION;

EID: 70350023465     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840701720853     Document Type: Article

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