Risk and Returns of Diversified Cropping Systems under Nonnormal, Cross-, and Autocorrelated Commodity Price Structures

This study analyzes the risks of diversified tropical cropping systems that combine cocoa, plantain, and tree-crop components in different proportions versus traditional monocultures. A technique for modeling the expected values, variances, and covariances of correlated time-series variables that ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Octavio A. Ramirez, Eduardo Somarriba
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Western Agricultural Economics Association 2000-12-01
Series:Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
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Online Access:https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/30901