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USING BEST WORST SCALING TO INVESTIGATE PERCEPTIONS OF CONTROL & CONCERN OVER FOOD AND NON-FOOD RISKS

Erdem, Seda; Rigby, Dan - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2011

-food risks. The means by which this is done is novel, and differs from past risk perception analyses in that it questions people … designed to make the process intuitive and cognitively manageable for respondents. The substantive analysis of the risk … how worrying the risks are considered to be, (iv) differences in the risk perceptions across social groups, as in this …

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ESS versus NVZ – The Cost-Effectiveness of Command-and-Control versus Agreement Based Policy Instruments

Sauer, Johannes; Walsh, John - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2011

. Based on a simple cost model considering also relevant transaction costs and risk we use different regression and resampling …

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A mixed-method approach for determining the risk and complexity farmers associate with using forward contracts

Jackson, Elizabeth; Quaddus, Mohammed; Islam, Nazrul; … - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2008

, the sources of risk wool producers perceive about using forward contracts and, secondly, why ‘complexity’, which is …

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The measurement of energy performance

Blancard, Stephane; Martin, Elsa - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2012

ADEME (the French national environmental and energy agency) develops tools in order to measure farm energy performance. The actual measurement is based on the total amount of energy consumed by farmers. The main objective of this paper is to propose an alternative method that can be used in...

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Building farmers’ capacity for innovation generation: what are the determining factors?

Tambo, Justice A.; Wünscher, Tobias - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014

shocks and risk preferences. These results are robust to alternative specifications and estimation techniques. We conclude …

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Decision Making Tool to Hedge Exchange Rate Risk

Fraire, Francisco; Leatham, David J. - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2006

New econometric and statistical techniques have been used in recent years to provide with exchange rates forecasting models that can statistically outperform a random walk. In particular, a model that uses the term structure of forward premia into a regime-switching vector error correction model...

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Premium Subsidy Changes and Demand for Crop Insurance

Lee, Dong Won; Diersen, Matthew A.; Janssen, Larry; … - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2006

Crop insurance is widely used on major crops raised in the Northern Plains. Prospective reductions in the crop insurance premium subsidy are commonly expected to result in lower use of insurance. Corn and soybean producers in South Dakota responded to the shift in subsidy levels beginning in...

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Food Quality Verifications and Consumer Trust

Hobbs, Jill E.; Innes, Brian G.; Uzea, Adrian D.; … - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2012

Food markets are increasingly characterized by an array of quality assurances with respect to credence attributes, reflecting a growing interest in where food comes from and how it is produced. The provision and signalling of these credence quality attributes includes both public and private...

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An Empirical Examination of the Relationship Between Real Options Values and the Rate of Investment in the Food and Life Science Industries

Menapace, Luisa; Turvey, Calum G. - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2002

This paper examines the relationship between uncertainty and investment decisions by food and non-food firms. Using hysteresis and the real options paradigm, we review why uncertainty might cause firms to delay investment. In particular, our model looks for a negative relationship between...

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THE MARKET RISK PERCEPTIONS AND MANAGEMENT OF IRISH DAIRY FARMERS

Loughrey, J.; Thorne, F.; Kinsella, A.; Hennessy, T.; … - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2014

to increase their production levels. Market risk will influence the decision-making process at the farm level. Dairy … farmers have acquired more recent experience of market risk through highly volatile market prices. This has the potential to … affect risk attitudes and the selection of tools available to manage market risk. In this paper, we examine the market risk …

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