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How does climate variability affect household portfolio decisions?

  • Journal of Insurance and Finance
  • 2009, 20(1), pp.107-149
  • Publisher : Korea Insurance Research Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Business Management

Yong-Hwan Noh 1 유경원 2

1서울여자대학교
2상명대학교

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ABSTRACT

Based on household panel data (1995-2000) in rural China this study presents the empirical evidence that rainfall variability as a proxy for yield risk influences the portfolio composition of a farming household. This paper supports for an allocation toward liquid assets in response to more volatile rainfall variability. It is observed that cash and deposits are important instruments for their precautionary wealth allocation, while it is difficult to find the similar evidence for grain stocks. It may imply that financial instruments have been substituted for conventional physical ones in precautionary portfolio allocation while dramatic institutional changes of the post-reform period have been proceeded in contemporary rural China.

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