The Impact of Input and Output Decisions on Agricultural Production Risk

This paper investigates the measurement of risk exposure in agriculture and its linkages with input and output decisions. We develop a conceptual analysis of risk under general risk preferences, including cumulative prospect theory. The approach is applied to a sample of U.S. farms from 1996 to 2011...

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Main Authors: Jean-Paul Chavas, Joseph Cooper, Steven Wallander
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Western Agricultural Economics Association 2019-09-01
Series:Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Online Access:https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/292329