This article constructs triple-difference tests around shifts in the supply of risk management instruments available to … agricultural producers to reveal a positive relation between risk management and productivity. This relation is more robust when … performance. Additionally, productivity is particularly high among risk-managing producers in counties containing high levels of …

in the model which represent the micro foundation in the model. One of the conclusions is that the more “risk averse” the …

activity is fraught with great risk, which is largely exacerbated by liquidity constraints. This situation is especially …