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| Nartea, Gilbert V.; Webster, Paul. |
| This study explores the potential for risk reduction by New Zealand farmers through the diversification of their farm asset portfolios to include financial investments such as ordinary industrial shares, government bonds and bank bills. Low correlations between rates of return on farm and these financial assets suggest that significant reduction of income variability might follow their inclusion in farmers’ portfolios. Stochastic efficiency analysis is used to analyse alternative portfolios of ordinary shares, government bonds and bank bills and New Zealand farmland, using coefficients of absolute risk aversion derived from a negative exponential utility function. The results suggest that those farmers showing high degrees of risk aversion would gain... |
| Tipo: Article |
Palavras-chave: Financial assets; NZ farmland; Risk management; Stochastic efficiency analysis; Agricultural and Food Policy; Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/118538 |
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