Bozzola, Martina - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014
irrigation water, taking into account their risk preferences. We rely on a panel data of 122,800 Italian farms, spread over 1981 … to 2003. We capture both variation over farms and over time. We show that risk aversion has increased over time, while … down-side risk aversion has been more stable and that farmers specializing in different crops exhibit different risk …