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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Hedging Price Risk in the Presence of Crop Yield and Revenue Insurance
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| Autores: |
Mahul, Olivier
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| Data: |
2006-05-17
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| Ano: |
2002
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| Palavras-chave: |
Crop insurance
Hedging
Producer welfare
Simulation
Risk and Uncertainty
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| Resumo: |
The demand for hedging against price uncertainty in the presence of crop yield and revenue insurance contracts is examined for two French wheat farms. The rationale for the use of options in addition to futures is first highlighted through the characterization of the first-best hedging strategy in the expected utility framework. It is then illustrated using numerical simulations. The presence of options is shown to allow the insured producer to adopt a more speculative position on the futures market. Futures are shown to be performing, in terms of willingness to receive. Options are weakly performing when futures markets are unbiased, while they are more performing when futures markets are biased.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
21199
http://purl.umn.edu/24881
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
European Association of Agricultural Economists>2002 International Congress, August 28-31, 2002, Zaragoza, Spain
Contributed Paper
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| Formato: |
22
application/pdf
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