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Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou, Sergei Schaub, Martin Quaas, Robert Finger   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

First Quarter Chronicle of COVID-19: An Attempt to Measure Governments’ Responses

Risks, 2020
The crisis caused by the outbreak of COVID-19 revealed the global unpreparedness for handling the impact of a pandemic. In this paper, we present a first quarter chronicle of COVID-19 in Hubei China, Italy and Spain, particularly focusing on infection ...
Şule Şahin, María del Carmen Boado-Penas, Corina Constantinescu, Julia Eisenberg, Kira Henshaw, Maoqi Hu, Jing Wang, Wei Zhu   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar, Laura Meriluoto, Richard Watt   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trade‐offs in avian parental care: a review of theory and meta‐analysis of brood size manipulations

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The selective forces shaping parental care have been studied for over 50 years. While theoretical and experimental work has yielded qualitative progress, the large body of empirical work testing predictions about parental investment based on life‐history trade‐offs has yet to be synthesized.
Rebekah A. McKinnon, Malgorzata Lagisz, Sheeraja Sridharan, David F. Westneat, Kimberley J. Mathot   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bayesian Growth Curve Modelling of Student Academic Trajectories: The Impact of Individual-Level Characteristics and Implications for Education Policy

Applied Sciences
This study examined the factors influencing student academic performance in the Bachelor of Science (BSc) Actuarial Science programme, focusing on Grade 12 mathematics marks, admission point (AP) scores, socioeconomic background, and progression rates ...
Moeketsi Mosia, Felix O. Egara, Fadip Nannim, Moses Basitere   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the effectiveness of road safety measures in Barcelona (2013-2018)

Heliyon, 2023
Introduction: This article aims to determine the effectiveness and extent of measures taken to decrease the severity of traffic crashes in Barcelona from 2013 to 2018. This will be achieved through an analysis of the traffic crash data.
Lluís Bermúdez, Isabel Morillo
doaj   +1 more source

The Devil is in the Tails: Actuarial Mathematics and the Subprime Mortgage Crisis [PDF]

ASTIN Bulletin, 2010
AbstractIn the aftermath of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, there has been criticism of mathematics and the mathematical models used by the finance industry. We answer these criticisms through a discussion of some of the actuarial models used in the pricing of credit derivatives.
Donnelly, Catherine, Embrechts, Paul
openaire   +2 more sources

ESG Decoupling Phenomenon: A Systematic and Bibliometric Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ESG decoupling, defined as the gap between a firm's ESG disclosures and its actual practices, poses a critical challenge to corporate sustainability. Using the PRISMA protocol, 451 articles were selected for a comprehensive bibliometric and systematic literature review to map the intellectual structure and thematic evolution of the research on
Maryam Laeeq, Farida Akhtar, Han Lin Shang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES AND PERSPECTIVES IN ACTUARIAL MATHEMATICS

, 2023
У тезах розглянуто актуарну математику як ключову галузь управління ризиками в страхуванні. Сталі зміни у кліматі, фінансові кризи, пандемії - виклики, які вимагають точного аналізу та стратегічних рішень.
Остапенко, Л., Барбашева, К.   +1 more
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Climate Stress Testing on European SME Securitised Loans Under Climate Mitigation Scenarios

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Assessing the future impact of climate risks on the probability of default (PD) of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is challenging due to limited disclosure, policy uncertainty and exposure to physical risks. This paper addresses this gap by integrating macroeconomic variables from the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS ...
Luca Zanin, Raffaella Calabrese
wiley   +1 more source