Assessing Farmers' Attitudes toward Risk Using the "Closing-In" Method
The 1996 Farm Bill and low commodity prices have regenerated interest in the impact of risk and farmers' risk attitudes on production agriculture. Previous research has used expected utility theory (EUT) and direct elicitation of utility functions (DEU) for eliciting risk attitudes. To overcome...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Western Agricultural Economics Association
2001-07-01
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Series: | Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics |
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Online Access: | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/31153 |