Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (Jul 2000)

Assessing the Financial Risks of Diversified Coffee Production Systems: An Alternative Nonnormal CDF Estimation Approach

  • Octavio A. Ramirez,
  • Romeo Sosa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.30838
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 1
pp. 267 – 285

Abstract

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Recently developed techniques are adapted and combined for the modeling and simulation of crop yields and prices that can be mutually correlated, exhibit heteroskedasticity or autocorrelation, and follow nonnormal probability density functions. The techniques are applied to the modeling and simulation of probability distribution functions for the returns of three tropical agroforestry systems for coffee production. The importance of using distribution functions that can more closely reflect the statistical behavior of yields and prices for risk analysis is discussed and illustrated.

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