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Chapter 7. Numerical Methods for Large-Scale Dynamic Economic Models
Maliar, Lilia; Maliar, Serguei - In: Handbook of computational economics : volume 3, (pp. 325-477). 2014
We survey numerical methods that are tractable in dynamic economic models with a finite, large number of continuous state variables. (Examples of such models are new Keynesian models, life-cycle models, heterogeneous-agents models, asset-pricing models, multisector models, multicountry models,...
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Comparison of different classification techniques for educational data
Pabreja, Kavita - In: International journal of information systems in the … 9 (2017) 1, pp. 54-67
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Spatial Downscaling of Agricultural Land-Use Data: An Econometric Approach Using Cross Entropy
Chakir, Raja - In: Land Economics 85 (2009) 2
We propose a spatial disaggregation tool to help researchers make the best use of aggregated data in studies of land use. The proposed approach uses parcel-level agricultural data in conjunction with biophysical processes to break down agricultural regional data to the pixel level. It is a...
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Risk management in the agri-food sector
Bachev, Hrabin - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 1, pp. 45-62
risk management in the agri-food sector. First, it specifies the diverse types of agri-food risks (natural, technical … the efficiency of risk management and identifies the factors (personal, institutional, dimensional, technological, and … natural) of governance choice. Next, it presents stages in the analysis of risk management and the improvement of public …
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The welfare gain from eliminating coffee price volatility: the case of indian coffee producers
Mohan, Sushil; Gemech, Firdu; Reeves, Alan; Struthers, John - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 4, pp. 57-72
the predictable and unpredictable components of volatility, the latter exposing producers to price risk. By using … empirical estimates of the coefficient of relative risk aversion drawn from the literature, we show that the welfare gain from … eliminating this price risk for Indian coffee producers is on average 4.8 percent of their revenue from coffee sales, which for a …
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Time-varying hedge ratios in linked agricultural markets
Bekkerman, Anton - In: Agricultural Finance Review 71 (2011) July, pp. 179-200
risk will have a better method for determining hedging positions, because MGARCH estimated hedge ratios incorporate more …
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Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India
Cole, Shawn; Gine, Xavier; Tobacman, Jeremy; Topalova, Petia - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5 (2013) 1, pp. 104-35
Why do many households remain exposed to large exogenous sources of nonsystematic income risk? We use a series of …
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Long-Range Forecasts As Climate Adaptation : Experimental Evidence From Developing-Country Agriculture
Burlig, Fiona; Jina, Amir; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Climate change increases weather variability, exacerbating agricultural risk in poor countries. Risk-averse farmers are …
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Forecasting Profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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Ex-ante regulation and ex-post liability under uncertainty and irreversibility: governing the coexistence of GM crops
Beckmann, Volker; Soregaroli, Claudio; Wesseler, Justus - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010), pp. 1-33
Ex-ante regulations and ex-post liabilities for using a new technology will induce additional costs for adopters. The standard model is advanced by including irreversibility and uncertainty and taking into account transaction costs of negotiating possible cost reductions. The case analysed is...
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