Threshold price as an economic indicator for sustainable Forest management under stochastic log price

Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 193-202

  Yoshimoto, Atsushi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geometric mean reverting process; Log price; Stochastic differential equation; Stochastic dynamic programming; Sustainable forest management

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRIC MEAN-REVERTING PROCESS; LOG PRICE; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SIMULATORS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TIME SERIES;

COSTS;

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GROWTH DETERMINATION; HARVESTING; PRICE DYNAMICS; STOCHASTICITY; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TIME SERIES;

COSTS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FLUID DYNAMICS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CRYPTOMERIA JAPONICA;

EID: 70350630725     PISSN: 13416979     EISSN: 16107403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10310-009-0122-z     Document Type: Article

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