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Can crop diversification of perennial crop by smallholder farmers explained by risk attitudes and time preferences?

Wening Sarwosri, Arieska; Mußhoff, Oliver - 2019

Abstract: This study examines whether the decision of crop diversification for perennial crops is based on underlying risk attitudes and time preferences. We conducted incentivised field experiments on Sumatra Island, Indonesia, involving farmers who cultivate rubber and farmers who cultivated...

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Rubber vs. oil palm : an analysis of factors influencing smallholders' crop choice in Jambi, Indonesia

Schwarze, Stefan; Euler, Michael; Gatto, Marcel; Hein, J.; … - 2015

by large private and public companies, it is expected that smallholders will outnumber large estates in the near future …. For policy formulation it is hence important to better understand who these smallholders are and why they have started to … production areas for oil palm, to analyse smallholders' decision making by combining qualitative, quantitative, and experimental …

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Digital opportunities for the distribution of index-based microinsurance : evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Mali

Kirchner, Ella; Mußhoff, Oliver - In: Journal of agricultural economics : JAE 75 (2024) 2, pp. 794-815

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Risk and time preferences of farmers in India and Indonesia

Sawosri, Arieska Wening; Mußhoff, Oliver - 2020

This cross-country study compares risk and time preferences of farmers from two lower-middle income countries, India and Indonesia. Current literature mainly focuses on a single country context; however, this study involves more than one country. Hence, we could investigate whether the...

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Encouraging rainforest preservation by smallholders : an ex-ante policy evaluation

Wening Sarwosri, Arieska; Wegmann, Johannes; Mußhoff, … - 2018

involved 636 smallholders. We found that price premiums and the provision of context-specific environmental information reduce … be used to estimate the participation of smallholders in more sustainable farming practices within the scheme of SPO …

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Investment behavior of ugandan smallholders farmers : an experimental analysis

Ihli, Hanna Julia; Mußhoff, Oliver - 2013

In this study, we experimentally analyze the investment behavior of smallholder farmers in Uganda. We consider a problem of optimal stopping, stylizing an option to invest in a project. We ascertain whether, and to what extent, the real options approach and the classical investment theory can...

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The more the better? : how collateral levels affect credit risk in agricultural microfinance

Müller, Kirsten; Mußhoff, Oliver; Weber, Ron - 2014

Financial institutions still neglect to address agricultural clients. The main reasons for that are their perception that farmers bear higher risks than non-farmers and that their loan products are inadequate to accommodate the needs of agricultural entrepreneurs. As a result, many farmers still...

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A Cambodian smallholder farmer's choice between microfinance institutes and informal commercial moneylenders : the role of risk attitude

Possner, Annkathrin; Bruns, Selina; Mußhoff, Oliver - In: Agricultural finance review 82 (2022) 1, pp. 183-204

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An empirical identification of temptation goods : perceptions of Cambodian smallholder farmers

Bruns, Selina; Mußhoff, Oliver - In: Applied economics 54 (2022) 17, pp. 1999-2012

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Small-scale raspberry producers’ risk and ambiguity preferences, and technology adoption: empirical evidence from rural Maule, Chile

Ardón Cárcamo, Jorge Alfredo - 2016

Most researchers who analyze producers’ preferences under uncertainty report that producers are averse towards risk and ambiguity scenarios. This aversion has an influence on producers’ decision-making processes; hence the relevance of determining and analyzing these preferences as a key...

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