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Effiziente Reduktion des Produktionsrisikos im Ackerbau durch Ertragsversicherungen

Gunnar Breustedt - 2004

Effiziente Reduktion des Produktionsrisikos im Ackerbau durch Ertragsversicherungen In Europa werden staatliche Hilfen für Ertragsversicherungen nach dem Vorbild der USA oder Kanada gefordert. In dieser Arbeit werden daher zum einen Bedingungen erarbeitet, unter denen die Subventionierung von...

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Consequentialism

Borah, Abhinash - 2010

decision making. Decision makers with such preferences may violate the property of stochastic dominance that is shared by both … expected utility and almost any model of non-expected utility. At its core, stochastic dominance requires a decision maker … stochastic process that generates these outcomes. On the other hand, decision makers with other-regarding preferences may show a …

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DO ANTIBIOTICS REDUCE PRODUCTION RISK FOR U.S. PORK PRODUCERS?

Liu, Xuanli; Miller, Gay Y.; McNamara, Paul E. - 2003

feeder to market pigs and a price matrix, the uncertainty in profits is evaluated. The impacts of risk on the decision making …

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PRODUCTION RISK AND CROP INSURANCE IN MALTING BARLEY: A STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE ANALYSIS

Gustafson, Cole R.; Wilson, William W.; Dahl, Bruce L. - 2006

Malt barley is an important specialty crop in the Northern Plains and growers mitigate risk with federally subsidized crop insurance and production contracts. However, growers face considerable risk due to "coverage gaps" in crop insurance that result in uncertain indemnity payments due to...

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Do Income Constraints Inhibit Spending on Fruits and Vegetables Among Low-Income Households?

Stewart, Hayden; Blisard, Noel; Jolliffe, Dean - 2003

This study assesses whether income constraints inhibit spending on fruits and vegetables among low-income households. If this is the case, then it is hypothesized that the distribution of expenditures on fruits and vegetables by low-income households should be stochastically dominated by the...

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Cost and benefits of using best management practices to control non-point sources of pollution under environmental and economic uncertainty

Rodriguez, Hector German; Popp, Jennie; Gbur, Edward E.; … - 2011

The economy of northwest Arkansas, including the Lincoln Lake watershed (a sub-watershed of the Illinois River), relies greatly upon livestock and poultry production. The supply of production by-products is increasingly under scrutiny as one of the potential sources of water pollution in the...

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Applications of Time Series in Finance and Macroeconomics

Jansen, Dennis W. (contributor) - 2010

This dissertation contains three applications of time series in finance and macroeconomics. The first essay compares the cumulative returns for stocks and bonds atinvestment horizons from one to ten years by using a test for spatial dominance.Spatial dominance is a variation of stochastic...

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Income Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach

Becker, Sascha O.; Fernandes, Ana; Bentolila, Samuel; … - 2008

In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the child’s residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their childrenand will provide financial help to an independent child when her income is low relative to...

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Are Options on Index Futures Profitable for Risk Averse Investors? : Empirical Evidence

Constantinides, George M.; Czerwonko, Michal; … - 2008

American call and put options on the S&P 500 index futures that violate the stochastic dominance bounds of Constantinides and Perrakis (2007) over 1983-2006 are identified as potentially profitable investment opportunities. Call bid prices more frequently violate their upper bound than put bid...

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The Comparison of Five Different Cattle Feeding Enterprises: A Stochastic Simulation on Expected Returns and the Effects of LRP Insurance

Bott, Caleb H. - 2010

This was a study on the Utah cattle industry which compared five different feeding enterprises. These feeding enterprises included feeding cull cows, finishing beef yearling steers, finishing Holstein yearling steers, backgrounding beef steer calves, and backgrounding Holstein steer calves. The...

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