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Risk Preferences and Environmental Uncertainty: Implications for Crop Diversification Decisions in Ethiopia
Bezabih, Mintewab; Sarr, Mare - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 53 (2012) 4, pp. 483-505
individual risk aversion and weather uncertainty could affect crop diversification decisions. This paper is concerned with … empirically assessing the effects of risk aversion and rainfall variability on farm level diversity. Unique panel data from … Ethiopia consisting of experimentally generated risk aversion measures combined with rainfall data are employed in the analysis …
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Sell the oil deposits!: A financial proposal to keep the oil underground in the Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
Bucaram, Santiago; Fernandez, Mario Andrés; Grijalva, Diego - 2016
The Yasuni National Park is a protected area located in the Amazon region of Ecuador and is recognized as one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. In recent years the park has received much attention due to the media exposure of the Yasuni-ITT Initiative. This Initiative proposed a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532347
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Sell the oil deposits! : a financial proposal to keep the oil underground in the Yasuni National Park, Ecuador
Bucaram, Santiago; Fernandez, Mario Andrés; Grijalva, Diego - 2016
The Yasuni National Park is a protected area located in the Amazon region of Ecuador and is recognized as one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. In recent years the park has received much attention due to the media exposure of the Yasuni-ITT Initiative. This Initiative proposed a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447387
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Portfolio Allocation, Income Uncertainty and Households' Flight from Risk
Brown, Sarah - 2016
Analysing the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we present a new empirical method to investigate the extent to which households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background risk. Our novel modelling approach – termed a deflated fractional ordered probit model –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977335
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Endogenous Non-Tradable Earnings and Households’ Demand for Risky Assets
Arrondel, Luc - 2014
Exploiting French survey data, we empirically ascertain whether earnings uncertainty and borrowing constraints decrease … holdings in response to earnings uncertainty but not to liquidity constraints. We show that these empirical findings are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048867
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Portfolio allocation, income uncertainty and households' flight from risk
Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel; Harris, Mark N.; Spencer, … - 2016
Analysing the US Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we present a new empirical method to investigate the extent to which households reduce their financial risk exposure when confronted with background risk. Our novel modelling approach - termed a deflated fractional ordered probit model -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594575
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Scope, Limitations and Future Directions
Smale, Melinda; Lipper, Leslie; Koundouri, Phoebe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Concepts, theoretical principles and econometric approaches are interrelated throughout the chapters of this book, but generalizations are not so straightforward. One reason why that is although the range of empirical contexts represented is broad, the crops and countries studied were selected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107537
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Scope, Limitations and Future Directions
Smale, Melinda; Lipper, Leslie; Koundouri, Phoebe - Department of International and European Economic …
Concepts, theoretical principles and econometric approaches are interrelated throughout the chapters of this book, but generalizations are not so straightforward. One reason why that is although the range of empirical contexts represented is broad, the crops and countries studied were selected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583862
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Estimating the value of crop diversity conservation services provided by the Czech National Programme for Agrobiodiversity
Tyack, Nicholas; Scasny, Milan - 2018
We estimate the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for conserving crop varieties for ten years in the Czech Republic using a double-bounded dichotomous choice model to analyze data collected with an online contingent valuation survey administered to a main country-wide sample of 1037 respondents and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063454
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Estimating the social value of specific crop diversity conservation plans: Do Czechs care more about conserving hop, wine or fruit tree varieties?
Tyack, Nicholas; Scasny, Milan - 2020
We use a discrete choice experiment to elicit the preferences of Czech adults ages 18 to 69 (n=805) for the conservation of wine, hop, and fruit tree varieties. In addition, we also elicit the preferences of a smaller sub-sample consisting solely of respondents from South Moravia (n=463), an...
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