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Vincent H. Smith
Researcher at Montana State University
Publications - 135
Citations - 2796
Vincent H. Smith is an academic researcher from Montana State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Crop insurance & Agriculture. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 134 publications receiving 2519 citations. Previous affiliations of Vincent H. Smith include North Carolina State University & University of Maryland, College Park.
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Crop Insurance, Moral Hazard, and Agricultural Chemical Use
TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between chemical input use and crop insurance purchase decisions for a sample of Kansas dryland wheat farmers and found that farmers that purchased insurance tended to use relatively more chemical inputs than farmers who did not insure.
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The Demand for Multiple Peril Crop Insurance: Evidence from Montana Wheat Farms
Vincent H. Smith,Alan E. Baquet +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an econometric analysis of the demand for multiple-parity crop insurance is carried out for a sample of 370 Montana wheat farms and the study is the first to model the farm's participation and coverage-level decisions separately through Heckman two-stage estimation procedures.
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Agricultural Insurance in Developed Countries: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the evolution of agricultural insurance products, the economics of the demand and supply sides of agricultural markets, and the economic welfare, political economy, and trade relation implications of private and public agricultural insurance in developed countries.
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Financing Agricultural R&D in Rich Countries: What's Happening and Why
TL;DR: A quantitative review of these funding trends and the considerable institutional changes that have accompanied them is presented in this article, where the authors discuss new data for 22 OECD countries, providing institutional details for five of these countries, and conclude with an assessment of policy developments.
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The private provision of public goods: Altruism and voluntary giving
TL;DR: This paper examined the determinants of charitable giving, including the role of altruism, and examined whether a household's decision to give or not give and the amount it gives are influenced in the same or different ways by the household's characteristics and economic circumstances.