Does money grow on trees? The diversification properties of U.S. timberland investments

Land Economics

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 514-529

  Scholtens, Bert ^a   Spierdijk, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Centre for International Banking Insurance and Finance   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; INVESTMENT; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956142349     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.86.3.514     Document Type: Article

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