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Land Allocation Under Uncertainty for Alternative Specifications of Return Distributions

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  • Collender, Robert N.
  • Zilberman, David

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Using the expected utility-moment-generating function approach, a land allocation rule is derived which is both independent of the nature of the underlying distribution of each element in the choice set and accounts for all moments of that distribution. This decision rule is applied to the choice between cotton and corn in the Mississippi Delta to demonstrate that consideration of just the first two moments of the distribution can often be unjustified and damaging empirically, theoretically, and in terms of the utility of the decision maker.
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  • Collender, Robert N. & Zilberman, David, 1985. "Land Allocation Under Uncertainty for Alternative Specifications of Return Distributions," CUDARE Working Papers 198271, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ucbecw:198271
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.198271
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