Marketing contract choices in agriculture: The role of price expectation and price risk management

Autor: Aymeric Ricome, Arnaud Reynaud
Přispěvatelé: Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (UT1), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Agricultural Economics
Agricultural Economics, Wiley, 2022, 53 (1), pp.170-186. ⟨10.1111/agec.12675⟩
ISSN: 1574-0862
0169-5150
DOI: 10.1111/agec.12675
Popis: National audience; We identify factors involved in the decision of farmers to use marketing contracts (pool, storage and forward contracts), and we explicitly account for the hedging and price-enhancement components of this decision. Using panel corner solution models (Tobit and double-hurdle) to represent farmers' contracting decision using a sample of French cereal producers, we find that both the hedging and the price-enhancement motives are important factors driving marketing choices. When risk aversion or exposure to price risk rises, the price-enhancement motive becomes less influential. Farmers appear to be more reluctant to base their marketing decisions on their price expectations in that case.
Databáze: OpenAIRE