Compounding and discounting under risk: Net present values and real option values

Economics and the Future: Time and Discounting in Private and Public Decision Making

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 37-55

  Hertzler, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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