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| Title: | HEDGING CROP RISK WITH YIELD INSURANCE FUTURES AND OPTIONS |
| Authors: | Mahul, Olivier
Vermersch, Dominique |
| Authors (Email): | Mahul, Olivier (mahul@roazhon.inra.fr) |
| Keywords: | crop insurance
hedging position
incomplete markets |
| Issue Date: | 1999 |
| Series/Report no.: | Selected Paper |
| Abstract: | This paper analyses the optimal hedging decisions for risk-averse producers facing crop risk, assuming crop yield insurance futures and options can be used. The first-best optimal hedge requires a futures position or an option position proportionate to the individual beta depending on whether the financial markets are perceived unbiased or biased. Using yield data for a sample of wheat producers in France, the producers' hedge ratios are derived. These new hedging instruments are more effective to reduce farm yield variability than the individual yield contracts, except if the individual yield guarantee is at least equal to the individual average yield. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/21672 |
| Institution/Association: | American Agricultural Economics Association>1999 Annual meeting, August 8-11, Nashville, TN |
| Total Pages: | 13 |
| Language: | English |
| Collections: | 1999 Annual meeting, August 8-11, Nashville, TN
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