Although significant research has been done on managing farmers’ financial risk through federal programs such as … agricultural risk. Federal crop insurance could empower farmers to use their farm management skills to become more resilient to … who lower their risk of crop loss by investing in technically sound management practices that both reduce the risk of loss …

Systemic weather risk is a major obstacle for the formation of private (nonsubsidized) crop insurance. This paper … at a national scale. Thus the possibility to reduce risk exposure by increasing the trading area of the insurance is …

There is growing concern about the impact of climate change on agriculture and the potential need for better risk … will increase weather and yield variability and will expose farmers to higher levels of risk. But it is not obvious what … variability, are presented for three different types of farms. The paper goes beyond indentifying the effectiveness of risk …

forward pricing are commonly used concurrently to manage crop revenue risk, the optimal combinations of these tools are … ratio which maximizes the certainty equivalent of a risk averse producer. The results generally reveal a lower optimal hedge …

We consider a political economy where government cares about risk-averse farmers’ loss of income and yet incurs … their risk). It is assumed that marginal political cost is high enough so that the possibility of monetary support to … their risks through fairly priced insurance In comparing 1) and 3), if the information problems prevent risk-averse farmers …

Government programs that help agricultural producers manage risk may have environmental consequences. In recent years …