farmers' overall risk exposure and profitability is unclear. Self-selection and market dynamics have masked the direct effect … effect on risk exposure and, ultimately, profitability. I find that crop insurance increases debt holdings and acres cash … insurance crowds out other risk-management strategies without improving farm profitability. …

policy from income support to risk management. A mix of price- and revenue-based commodity programs as well as yield- and … revenue-based insurance products provide crop producers a complex portfolio of risk management tools and choices. To make … effective risk management decisions, crop producers must integrate farm programs and crop insurance alternatives in a …

) rates tend to underestimate the risk in the lower coverage levels (50% and 60%). At the level of 70% of coverage the …

-food risks. The means by which this is done is novel and differs from past risk perception analyses in that it asks people … the risk perceptions has 4 main foci concerning the relative assessment of (i) novel as opposed to more familiar risks (e … versus how worrying the risks are considered to be, (iv) differences in the risk perceptions across social groups, in this …

Herein we model the widespread dispersal and management of an invasive species as a weak-link public good. The risk of … introduction is driven in part by economic activity, is influenced by policies directed at the risk, and economic activity responds …/adapts to the risk. Framed around recent introductions and rapid spread of dreissenid mussels in the Western United States, we …