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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley, Sean Posey, Kathy Baylis, Daniel Osgood, Stuart Sweeney   +4 more
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Effectiveness of insurance risk management under crisis conditions

Vìsnik Žitomirsʹkogo Deržavnogo Tehnologìčnogo Unìversitetu: Ekonomìčnì Nauki, 2015
In the article some historical aspects of insurance, domestic trends in insurance risk management with aspects of international experience, the modern role of insurance and insurance companies in a market economy, factors of risk management system and ...
I.G. Goncharenko
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Competition and its influence on the development of the insurance market

Економіка, Eкологія, Cоціум, 2018
Problem. The emergence of a new number of business entities of all forms of ownership and their own methods of doing business lead to the development of the market economy infrastructure and its formation in Ukraine.
Olha Slobodianiuk
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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
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The secondary market in life insurance – transformations in the years 2007–2023 in the context of the idea of introducing the obligation to inform about the right to sell the policy on the secondary market

Ekonomista
The article presents the results of a synthesis of interpretive research undertaken to examine the benefits for consumers and to assess the development potential of the insurance market thanks to the functioning of the secondary life insurance market ...
Anna Jańska, Robert Kurek
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INSURANCE MARKET AND SYSTEM-BASED RISK OF FUNCTIONING

Фінансово-кредитна діяльність: проблеми теорії та практики, 2019
The article deals with the factors and conditions for the emergence and spread of systemic risks in the insurance market within the framework of the interaction of insurance companies with each other and other financial institutions.
O. I. Shevtsova, Yе. I. Bondar
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Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The United States spends billions annually on crop insurance premium subsidies, yet the prevailing distance‐based guarantee design unintentionally rewards risk‐taking by linking subsidies to yield variability. We consider a simple redesign: define guarantees in terms of probability so that coverage reflects a consistent likelihood of indemnity.
Gerald Van Tassell, Alan P. Ker
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang, Lena Kuhn, Hang Xiong, Zhanli Sun, Thomas Glauben   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND THE PLACE OF ROMANIA ON INSURANCE GLOBAL MARKET [PDF]

Annals of the University of Petrosani: Economics, 2013
The paper is centered on some aspects regarding a comparative analysis of the global insurance market taking into account few specific indicators such as: gross written premiums, insurance density and insurance penetration degree. We analyzed the world
ANA PREDA, MIRELA MONEA
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