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The Effect of Climate on Crop Insurance Premium Rates and Producer Subsidies
Tack, Jesse B. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Likely climate change impacts in the U.S. include damages to agricultural production resulting from increased exposure to extreme heat. However, considerable uncertainty remains regarding impacts on the performance of the Federal Crop Insurance Program. Here we utilized a large panel of corn...
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More than Mean Effects: Modeling the Effect of Climate on the Higher Order Moments of Crop Yields
Tack, Jesse B.; Harri, Ardian; Coble, Keith H. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
The objective of this article is to propose the use of moment functions and maximum entropy techniques as a flexible … moments under a variety of climate and irrigation regimes, we utilize maximum entropy techniques to analyze the distributional …. We empirically illustrate several advantages of our moment based maximum entropy approach, including flexibility of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916419
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U.S. Agriculture: Commercial and Large Producer Concentration and Implications for Agribusiness Segments
Rios, Ana R.; Gray, Allan W. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2005
activities during the 1982 to 2002 period. Data from the Census of Agriculture are used to calculate Theil's relative entropy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005327314