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Evaluating crop insurance and marketing strategies for Indiana corn and soybean producers
Moll, David C - 2010
Price volatility has recently increased in the corn and soybean markets. As the price risk environment has changed for producers, risk management strategies need to be reexamined. Which strategies provide downside revenue protection and high mean revenues? The strategies considered are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430314
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Die Politiken der Gemeinschaft und die Berggebiete : Konferenzbeiträge ; Brüssel 17.-18. Oktober 2002
Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion … - 2003
2002 war das Internationale Jahr der Berge. In diesem Zusammenhang fanden in aller Welt zahlreiche Veranstaltungen statt, um das Verständnis für die Bedeutung der Bergwelt aus historischer, ökologischer, kultureller und wirtschaftlicher Sicht zu verbessern. Ferner sollte nach Wegen gesucht...
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - 2011
This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weatherevents. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affectedindividuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
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The MODERE Model and The Economic Analysis of Farmers’ Decisions
Gomez Gomez, Carlos Mario; Gutierrez, Carlos - 2008
The MODERE, the Ministry of the Environment Irrigation Decision Model, is a simulation tool whichuses mathematical programming methods to reveal the implicit multiattribute objective function lyingbehind the observed cropping decision. The model takes different criteria such as profit...
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Rethinking rural development: Making peasant organizations work. The case of Paraguay
Molinas Vega, Jose R - 1997
This dissertation studies the role of the collective action sector for rural development. A combination of formal modeling, historical and institutional analysis, and econometric methods is used in this research. I develop microeconomic models to analyze the determinants of peasants' decisions...
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A theoretical and statistical exploration into the effects of morals, personality and uncertainty on hypothetical bias in contingent valuation
Ogrodowczyk, Joseph D - 2003
Contingent valuation (CV) is a surveying technique used to estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) by individuals for non-market goods (goods for which no market of exchange exists). Many CV studies have shown the existence of hypothetical bias which occurs when individuals are asked a...
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Valuing environmental health risks: A comparison of stated preference techniques applied to groundwater contamination
McDonald, Tammy Barlow - 2001
This research examines groundwater protection programs as a case study of investments to address long-term environmental health risks. The value individuals place on reducing their risk of exposure to chemical contaminants is estimated using stated preference methodology, accounting for the...
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Food quality regulation under trade agreements: Effects on the supply of food safety and competitiveness
Hooker, Neal Hilton - 1997
As progress has been made on tariff reduction by recent trade agreements, barriers to freer international trade arising from nontariff sources have become more prominent. Regulation of product quality and in particular food safety can be a major source of such barriers. Lowering them requires...
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Hypothetical bias in contingent valuation
Yadav, Lava Prakash - 2007
The three essays in this dissertation address issues pertinent to hypothetical bias in the contingent valuation (CV) mechanism. Empirical evidence gathered through several experiments conducted at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is used to provide a better understanding of the cause...
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The impact of land ownership inequality on rural factor markets
Unal, Fatma Gul - 2008
economic opportunities within agriculture and, thereby, in reducing rural inequality. In addition, the dissertation examines … allocative efficiency in Turkish agriculture by testing for an inverse size-yield relationship across farms, and by econometric … relationship in Turkish agriculture. Inverse size yield relationship suggests that as farm size gets smaller yield per acre gets …
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