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Sowohl Ernteversicherungen als auch „Wetterderivate“ sind neuartigeRisikomanagementinstrumente, die eine Absicherung gegen Schäden aus nichtkatastrophalenWetterereignissen ermöglichen, in Deutschland aber bisher nicht verbreitet sind. Imvorliegenden Beitrag wird mit Hilfe eines...
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Purpose – Often farmers do not switch to a new bank even if it offers better interest rates than the house bank. This can be attributed partly to transaction costs, and partly to bounded rationality. The purpose of this paper is to better understand farm borrowers by analyzing the role of...
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Since the mid‐1990s, agricultural economists have discussed the relevance of index‐based insurances, also called “weather derivatives”, as hedging instruments for volumetric risks in agriculture. Motivated by the question of how weather derivatives should be priced for agricultural...
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Anpassungsvorgänge an sich verändernde ökonomische Rahmenbedingungen erfolgen oft nicht mit der Geschwindigkeit, mit der sie sich nach vordergründigen Erwartungen vollziehen sollten. Beispielsweise ist zu beobachten, dass Betriebe technologische Neuerungen häufig erst später übernehmen...
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In this paper we explore whether the incorporation of systematic time series analyses and mathematical optimization procedures in the practical planning process has the potential to improve production program decisions. The cases of four German cash crop farms are investigated over six planning...
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Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre werden „Wetterderivate“ als neues Instrument zum Management etterbedingter Mengenrisiken diskutiert. Im Gegensatz zu schadensbezogenen Versicherungen erfolgt der Hedge bei Wetterderivaten durch an Wetterindizes (Nieder-schlagssummen, Temperatursummen etc.)...
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Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is widely used to compare the empirical performance of decision making units such as firms or public bodies. With a view to the recent boom of applications to a very wide range of different problems, this paper shows for which data and problem structures DEA...
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The probability that buyers are deceived with regard to the quality or safety of purchased products (moral hazard) increases with the profits which suppliers can earn through opportunistic behavior. It decreases with the probability and level of losses that result from disclosure of malpractice....
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