Patience Is an Economic Virtue: Real Options, Natural Resources, and Offshore Oil

Date

2013

Citation

Michael A. Livermore, Patience Is an Economic Virtue: Real Options, Natural Resources, and Offshore Oil, 84 University of Colorado Law Review, 581–650 (2013).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Michael A. Livermore

Public Policy and Regulation

John W. Glynn Jr. Law & Business Program

PLACE: Program in Law, Communities and the Environment

Center for Public Law and Political Economy

LawTech Center

Center for Empirical Studies in Law

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