A Bayesian approach to German agricultural yield expectations

Agricultural Finance Review

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 9-23

  Krause, Jette ^a  

^a Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural yields; Bayesian learning; Bayesian updating; Climate change; Expectation; Risk; Trend; Variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950865277     PISSN: 00021466     EISSN: 20416326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00214660880001216     Document Type: Article

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