On the systemic nature of weather risk

Agricultural Finance Review

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 267-284

  Xu, Wei ^a   Filler, Guenther ^a   Odening, Martin ^a   Okhrin, Ostap ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Crops; Financial risk; Insurance; Multivariate analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872268904     PISSN: 00021466     EISSN: 20416326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00021461011065283     Document Type: Article

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