a deeper understanding as to why the economy lacks in specific areas of risk sharing arrangements. As well, it can point … to areas where the economy's risk sharing capability can be enhanced. Using household data from the Panel Study of Income … Dynamics, we find that a negligible amount of risk (around 10%) is shared in the aggregate, about 50% is shared within regions …

, positivity of the bid-ask spread can be identified with a very weak form of risk aversion SMRA. We perform here a more thorough …

not only the standard arguments like expected prices but also risk. We extend Lin's work [1991, 1992] by modelling supply … national Chinese agricultural supply is price and price risk responsive. Further, we fit our model to data for North, Northeast … national level, Chinese agriculture is found to be price and price risk responsive. The regional analyses suggest that …

paper concludes with an empirical section where we provide further evidence and new results on the risk-return trade-off. We …

This paper analyses the adoption process of water-conserving irrigation technologies by a risk averse farmer in a … individual risk preferences of the producer, on the variance and asymmetry of the cost of water applied, and on the elasticity of … of uncertainty regarding water availability incentives the adoption of modern irrigation technologies only if this allows …

designed to keep domestic beef prices low inject considerable risk into the investment decision. …