Assessing the Financial Risks of Diversified Coffee Production Systems: An Alternative Nonnormal CDF Estimation Approach

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 267-285

  Ramirez, Octavio A ^a   Sosa, Romeo ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CATIE   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Agroforestry systems; Nonnormal probability distributions; Risk analysis, yield price simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034386106     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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