The influence of direct payments on farmers' hail insurance decisions

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 343-354

  Finger, Robert ^a,b   Lehmann, Niklaus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adoption determinants; Demand; Direct payments; Hail insurance; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION CONSTRAINT; AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CROP PRODUCTION; DECISION MAKING; DEMAND ANALYSIS; HAIL; INSURANCE SYSTEM; PANEL DATA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84859987758     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2012.00587.x     Document Type: Article

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