Investment decisions under uncertainty-A methodological review on forest science studies

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-15

  Hildebrandt, Patrick ^a   Knoke, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diversification; Downside risk; Expected utility; Information gap decision theory; Lower partial moment; Mean variance; Option pricing; Robust optimisation; Stochastic dominance; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DIVERSIFICATION; DOWNSIDE RISKS; EXPECTED UTILITY; INFORMATION-GAP; LOWER PARTIAL MOMENTS; MEAN VARIANCE; OPTIMISATIONS; OPTION PRICING; STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE; UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION THEORY; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; INVESTMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TIMBER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING;

DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTS; INVESTMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PRICES;

EID: 78649800462     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2010.09.001     Document Type: Review

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