Decomposing producer price risk: a policy analysis tool with an application to northern Kenyan livestock markets

Decision criteria in risk analysis : an application of stochastic dominance with respect to a function

Beef Producer Preferences and Purchase Decisions for Livestock Price Insurance

Personal interviews were conducted with beef cattle producers in Louisiana to determine their preferences and purchase decisions for livestock price insurance. Conjoint analysis was utilized to determine the importance of selected attributes of insurance policies for these producers. The characteristics of producers who prefer given attributes were also identified. Producers rated products give...

An Introduction to Policy Delphi; A tool for discovering the opposing views on health policy issues

Objective: In this review, we investigated various aspects of Policy Delphi technique to make decision-makers more aware of this pertinent method so that they can use it in their policy decisions in their organizations. Information sources and selected methods for study: This study was conducted using a review method and by searching the related literature in databases such as PubMed, Scopus a...

Catfish Producer Harvest Response to Production and Asymmetric Price Risk

A theoretical non-risk model was hypothesized to Harvest response to production and asymmetric explain the monthly harvest of food-size catfish. price risk was analyzed using an ordinary least After initial estimation, risk variables were incorposquares model. Statistically significant responses to rated into the model to account for production, input production-quality and output price risk we...

a new type-ii fuzzy logic based controller for non-linear dynamical systems with application to 3-psp parallel robot

abstract type-ii fuzzy logic has shown its superiority over traditional fuzzy logic when dealing with uncertainty. type-ii fuzzy logic controllers are however newer and more promising approaches that have been recently applied to various fields due to their significant contribution especially when the noise (as an important instance of uncertainty) emerges. during the design of type- i fuz...