Hedging Price Risk in the Presence of Crop Yield and Revenue Insurance

Olivier Mahul
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Olivier Mahul: ESR - Unité de recherche d'Économie et Sociologie Rurales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

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Abstract: The demand for hedging against price uncertainty in the presence of crop yield and revenue insurance contracts is examined for French wheat farms. The rationale for the use of options in addition to futures is first highlighted through the characterisation of the first-best hedging strategy in the expected utility framework. It is then illustrated using numerical simulations. The presence of options is shown to allow the insured producer to adopt a more speculative position on the futures market. Futures are shown to be performing, in terms of willingness to receive. Options are weakly performing when futures markets are unbiased, while they are more performing when futures markets are biased.

Keywords: Production et marchés; financial market; agricultural insurance; harvesting; france; comportement des agriculteurs; marché financier; assurance agricole; exploitation céréalière; risque agricole; récolte (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-04-22
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Published in NCR-134 Conference on applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management, Apr 2002, Saint-Louis, United States. 20 p

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