Riskier product portfolio under decoupled payments

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-123

  Roche, Maurice J ^a   McQuinn, Kieran ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b Ctrl Bank Fin Serv Auth Ireland   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Decoupled payments; Mean variance analysis; Production risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 4043150688     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/31.2.111     Document Type: Review

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