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Insurance Intermediaries

CECCAR Business Review
The insurance contract is concluded between the insured and the insurer. However, insurance relations may also involve other persons than the insured and the insurer, for example, the insurance contractor, the beneficiary, the person covered by the ...
Ioana Nely MILITARU
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Adaptive Responses of Tropical Crops: A Multi‐Scale Omics Integrated Perspective

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Tropical crops integrate genomic, morphological, physiological, and ecological adaptations to thrive under extreme and variable environments. This review highlights how natural selection, domestication, and breeding shape stress resilience, resource‐use strategies, and productivity in sugarcane, banana, cassava, rubber and oil palm, offering new routes
Peilin Wang, Chenhui Li, Dongjiao Wang, Qibin Wu, Zhen Zeng, Huiming Guo, Han Cheng, Songbi Chen, Hongxing Cao, Hongmei Cheng, Jianghui Xie, Youxiong Que   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Large Scale Multi‐Modal Workflow for Battery Characterization: From Concept to Implementation

Advanced Energy Materials, EarlyView.
Isolated characterization techniques produce independent datasets and single‐property insights. However, progressively more holistic interpretations of battery‐material behavior is needed in the future. Here we demonstrate a coordinated multimodal workflow enabling the correlation of heterogeneous datasets and the construction of multidimensional ...
François Cadiou, Cinthya Herrera, Duncan Atkins, Elixabete Ayerbe, Giorgio Baraldi, Stéphanie Belin, Anass Benayad, Didier Blanchard, Federico Capone, Ennio Capria, Isidora Cekic‐Laskovic, Robert Dominko, Kristina Edström, Ajay Gautam, Lukas Helfen, Antonella Iadecola, Quentin Jacquet, Gregor Kapun, Xinyu Li, Aleksandar Matic, Nataliia Mozhzhukhina, Andrew J. Naylor, Poul Norby, Chris O'Keefe, Alexandre Ponrouch, Jean‐Pascal Rueff, Elena Tchernykova, Deyana Tchitchekova, Israel Temprano, Nikita Vostrov, Marnix Wagemaker, Martin Winter, Christian Wölke, Tejs Vegge, Sandrine Lyonnard   +34 more
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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava, Jung Sun Lee, Travis A. Smith   +2 more
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Labeling Quality or Quantity? The Differential Impact of Geographical Indications on Export Performance in Turkish Agri‐Food Products

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of geographical indication (GI) certification on the export performance of Turkish agri‐food products by analyzing both trade volume and unit value dynamics. Drawing on monthly data from 2000 to 2024 across 22 GI‐certified products, the research employs product‐level regressions, fixed‐effects panel models ...
Ihlas Sovbetov, Muge Burcu Ozdemir
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The Elements of the Insurance Contract

CECCAR Business Review
The insurance contract is a voluntary agreement between the insured and the insurer whereby the latter offers the former the value of the damages, within the limit of the insured amount, in the event of the occurrence of the (insured) risk, in exchange ...
Ioana Nely MILITARU
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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
wiley   +1 more source

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

Expansion of insurance business: theoretical aspects and assumptions of market development

Business: Theory and Practice, 2019
The nowadays insurance, although still having its own essential purpose, has a lot of differences in comparison with the predecessors, which have been mostly determined by the change in technologies, insurer`s demands and assurer`s opportunities ...
Aleksandra Lezgovko, Povilas Lastauskas
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