Risk Management are well matched. While relevant research is being done, many extension economists desire marketing …Extension marketing economists were surveyed to determine whether they are using available research results and whether … research is being conducted on topics relevant to extension marketing economists. In some cases, the beliefs of extension …

Optimal hedging level, minimum-risk hedging level, and hedging effectiveness are defined in a manner consistent with … portfolio theory and used to analyze hedging potential in cattle feeding. Estimated upper limits on optimal hedging levels … futures trading costs are taken into account, optimal hedging levels are depressed below these limits, depending upon the …

dominance analysis. Results suggest that, in the absence of environmental risk, N demand becomes more elastic as farmers become … more risk averse. When environmental risk is introduced to the decision-making process, N demand becomes even more elastic. …

, continuous soybeans, and soybeans after grain sorghum. Conventional tillage continuous grain sorghum would be preferred by risk …

ways to manage risk of which one of the most important forms is interest rate risk. In this paper we use the mean …-variance (mean-standard deviation) approach to examine a banking firm investing in risky assets and hedging opportunities. The mean …-standard deviation framework can be used because our hedging model satisfies a scale and location condition. The focus of this study is …

A theoretical optimal hedging model is developed to determine potential demand from Australian farmers for a hedging … have been developed to hedge price risk on capital markets; however, in more recent times new financial instruments …, weather derivatives, have been developing that hedge the volumetric risk associated with unfavourable weather. Weather …

A theoretical optimal hedging model is developed to determine potential demand from Australianfarmers for a hedging … have been developed to hedge price risk on capitalmarkets; however, in more recent times new financial instruments, weather … derivatives, have beendeveloping that hedge the volumetric risk associated with unfavourable weather. Weatherderivatives have the …

cultivation. This paper attempts to assess the risk in production of selected legumes. The analysis shows that the income risk in … legumes cultivation is high. To a large extent it is determined by the production risk (yield variability). / Synopsis. W …