Safe gambles? Farmer perceptions of transactional certainty and risk-return tradeoffs in contract farming schemes in Southern India
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Keywords
contract farming; subjective distributions; risk perceptions; stochastic dominance; elicitation methods;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q12 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
- Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness
- D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
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