Developments in portfolio management and risk programming techniques for agriculture

Agricultural Finance Review

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 219-245

  Turvey, Calum G ^a   Escalante, Cesar L ^b   Nganje, William ^c  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct expected utility maximization; MOTAD; Quadratic programming; Risk programming; Semivariance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946567719     PISSN: 00021466     EISSN: 20416326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00214660580001174     Document Type: Article

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