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Mexico and China. Design/methodology/approach –Using primary survey data from 730 farm households in the Shaanxi province of … China and from 372 farmers in northeastern Mexico, the authors investigate factors associated with risk rationed, price …. Findings –The authors find in China the incidence of risk rationing in farmers to be 6.5, 14 percent for quantity rationed and …
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The IFAMR is the flagship journal in Agribusiness published quarterly by IFAMA. More information can be found at: www.ifama.org
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China. This study finds that market service and environment are very important for both contract choices and enforcement …
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rural households in the north region of China. Coinciding with theoretical predictions, experimental results show that index …
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expectations of the marketing year average price as well as on what crop, if any, has been planted on the base acres receiving the …
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Basis risk has been cited as a primary concern for implementing weather hedges. This study investigates several dimensions of weather basis risk for the U.S. corn market at various levels of aggregation. The results suggest that while the degree of geographic basis risk may be significant in...
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Farmers need information about the expected value and variability of net revenues for alternative crop insurance and futures hedging strategies to manage risk. Specifically, the model will determine which risk management strategies are most desirable under various levels of risk aversion. The...
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To many people, futures trading is a little understood and rather suspicious activity. The word most often associated with this trading is "speculation", the idea being that most of those involved in futures markets are gamblers in a high stakes game seeking profit at the expense of those...
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Information on prices and price risk differences across marketing arrangements aids fed cattle producers in making … choices about marketing methods. As part of the congressionally mandated Livestock and Meat Marketing Study, we investigated … fed cattle price and price risk differences across marketing arrangements. The analysis uses data representing cattle …
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