farmland via an index of agribusiness stocks provides significant diversification benefits. We estimated the dependence between … daily returns of the S&P 500 and an index of agribusiness stocks from 1970 through 2008 using copulas. We find significant … evidence that agribusiness stocks have strong lower tail dependence with large U.S. stocks and are actually less correlated in …

-food risks. The means by which this is done is novel and differs from past risk perception analyses in that it asks people … the risk perceptions has 4 main foci concerning the relative assessment of (i) novel as opposed to more familiar risks (e … versus how worrying the risks are considered to be, (iv) differences in the risk perceptions across social groups, in this …

risk management opportunities offered by an integrated North American natural gas market. Lucy has to assess the different …

risk management opportunities offered by an integrated North American natural gas market. Lucy has to assess the different …

disseminating among producers and are often touted as promising inputs to production and risk management, little is known about how … popular powdery mildew risk model that generates forecasts in the form of a daily risk index (PMI). Our analysis suggests that … shifting from sulfur to more potent synthetic fungicides, increasing dosage rates, and using multiple products when the risk is …

Abstract The objective of this paper is to analyze the relationship between farmers’ risk-aversions and the riskiness … agency theory model we hypothesize the prevalence of alternative marketing arrangements (AMAs) in situations with high-risk … averse farmers and high-risk enterprises and the prevalence of spot (cash) markets for low risk-averse participants and less …

Poisson models reveal the aspects and conditionings of organic farmer's risk perception. The diversification level of their …