Modeling stochastic crop yield expectations with a limiting beta distribution

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 177-191

  Hennessy, David A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop abandonment; Crop insurance; Derivative analysis; Growing degree days; P lya's urn; Stochastic process

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958135791     PISSN: 10685502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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