Measurement of Price Risk in Revenue Insurance: Implications of Distributional Assumptions

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 195-214

  Goodwin, Barry K ^a   Roberts, Matthew C ^a   Coble, Keith H ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mixture distributions; Price risk; Revenue insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034409563     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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