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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 +4 more
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The determinants of efficiency and productivity in the Swiss insurance industry [PDF]
European Journal of Operational Research, 2015 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Christian Biener +2 more
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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 +3 more
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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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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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LIFE INSURANCE AS AN INNOVATIVE PRODUCT IN THE INSURANCE MARKET OF UKRAINE [PDF]
Efektyvna ekonomika, 2019 У статті на основі вивчення наукових напрацювань обґрунтовано важливість страхування життя, як для забезпечення соціальних потреб страхувальників, так і для економічного розвитку країни. Обгрунтовано важливість накопичувального страхування життя у зв’язку з поступовим погіршенням демографічної ситуації, зменшенням працюючого населення та збільшення ...
Y. M. Grynchyshyn, T. V. Gryshchuk
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Kansas Insurance Department, Commission and Superintendent - Annual Reports (1871-1999).
, 1871 A centennial history of the Kansas Insurance Department appears at the beginning of the 101st Annual Report (1970/71) of the Department. Annual reports issued after 1999 can be found in the KGI Online Library separately under the Kansas Insurance ...
Kansas. Insurance Department.
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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 +4 more
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TRENDS AND PROBLEMS IN THE CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENT OF THE INSURANCE MARKET OF RUSSIA
Научный вестник МГТУ ГА, 2016 The article reveals features and tendencies of development of the Russian insurance market, indicators of development of the insurance market of Russia are analyzed.
N. I. Zakharova +2 more
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