An inferred valuation method

Land Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 500-514

  Lusk, Jayson L ^a   Norwood, F Bailey ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC GOODS; VALUATION;

EID: 70350347374     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.85.3.500     Document Type: Article

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