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Crop insurance in transition: a qualitative and quantitative assessment of insurance products [PDF]
This discussion paper considers insurance as a possible instrument of farm income stabilization and compares several crop insurance products with respect to their applicability in a transition economy using the case of Kazakhstan.
Bokusheva, Raushan
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Making Value‐Chain Risks Visible: Extending ENCORE for Systemic Insights
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Businesses in all sectors, including downstream segments, depend on biodiversity and the ecosystem services it sustains, yet firms also exert pressures that accelerate biodiversity loss. The latter generates material risks for both companies and their financial stakeholders.
Hjalmar Funke +3 more
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A double-hurdle model estimation of cocoa farmers' willingness to pay for crop insurance in Ghana. [PDF]
Springerplus, 2016 Okoffo ED +3 more
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Actuarial Impacts of Loss Cost Ratio Ratemaking in U.S. Crop Insurance Programs [PDF]
This study examines the actuarial implications of the loss cost ratio (LCR) ratemaking methodology employed by the Risk Management Agency as a component of base rates for U.S.
Schnitkey, Gary D. +2 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Industrial symbiosis (IS) represents a key strategy for industrial decarbonisation (ID) by converting one industry's waste into valuable inputs for another, reducing emissions and resource extraction. Scientific studies have explored the concept, implementation approaches and theoretical foundations of IS.
Marzieh Dehghan Niri +2 more
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Reduction of Yield and Income Risk Under Alternative Crop Insurance and Disaster Assistance Plans [PDF]
This study compares the effectiveness of five crop insurance/disaster assistance plans: an individual farm yield insurance plan similar to the current FCIC multi-peril program ; two area yield insurance plans; a farm yield disaster assistance plan; and ...
Carriker, Gordon L. +3 more
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Eyes on the Ground: Can Institutional Investor Site Visits Discipline Corporate ESG Hypocrisy?
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether institutional investor site visits serve as an effective external governance mechanism for curbing environmental, social and governance (ESG) hypocrisy. Using panel data on Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2012 to 2021, we find that site visits significantly reduce ESG hypocrisy by improving internal control ...
Lichun Zheng +4 more
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Policy Design of Multi-Year Crop Insurance Contracts with Partial Payments. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2015 Chen YE, Goodwin BK.
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study assesses and compares the eco‐efficiency of six olive production systems in the Alentejo region, southern Portugal, employing a life cycle costing (LCC) approach directly integrated with a prior life cycle assessment (LCA). Although LCC has been increasingly applied to Mediterranean olive‐growing, empirical research in Portugal ...
Rachel Hermeto de Pádua Souza +3 more
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Modeling Exit and Entry of Farmers in a Crop Insurance Program [PDF]
This paper examines the factors influencing farmer participation in crop insurance schemes, but unlike previous studies that focus on total demand, participation is disaggregated into entrants and those exiting.
Leiva, Akssell J. +2 more
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