Hennessy, David A. - Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), … - 2008
While the preponderance of empirical studies point to negative crop yield skewness in a wide variety of contexts, the … weather-conditioned mean yield has diminishing marginal product, then there is a disposition toward negative skewness in … distribution relative to that of the weather distribution. Turning to disaggregated yields, we decompose unconditional skewness …