Measuring producers' risk preferences: A global risk-attitude construct

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 993-1009

  Pennings, Joost M E ^a,b   Garcia, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Expected utility; Futures usage; Global risk attitude construct; Multi item scale; Second order factor analysis; Validity

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; FARMERS ATTITUDE; METHODOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0035667088     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0002-9092.00225     Document Type: Article

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