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Premium subsidy designs and crowding out of insurance demand

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is an important instrument to protect farmers against extreme weather events. Many countries provide subsidies for crop insurance products to make insurance more affordable for farmers. The Federal Crop Insurance Program in the United States and major European crop insurance programs such as in Spain, Italy, and France focus on ...
Tim Philippi
wiley   +1 more source

Essays on Board of Directors’ External Connections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The two essays in this dissertation study issues related to the board of directors’ external connections, i.e., social ties to directors and executives of other firms.
Kim, Sehan
core  

Firm turnover under asymmetric information: Tanzania's agro‐dealer sector

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study firm turnover (i.e., entry and exit) and its consumer implications in a market characterized by asymmetric information. Using a three‐round census of agro‐dealers in Tanzania's Morogoro Region, we document annual firm entry and exit rates of 33% and 17%, respectively.
Alix Naugler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Connecting to Green or Connecting to Grey: The Environmental Effect of Political Connections

open access: yesPolish Journal of Environmental Studies
Employing Rule No. 18 of the China Communist Party for independent directors in 2014 as a quasi-exogenous shock, our paper investigates the effects of political connection disruptions on firms’ environmental performance in heavily polluting industries.
Junbing Xu   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Income sharing for common pool resources with uncertain productivity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We address the interconnected issues of externalities in the use of a natural common‐pool resource system and adverse effects of environmental uncertainty on risk‐averse resource users. We set up a simple analytical model and derive conditions such that insurance by means of an income sharing mechanism mitigates externalities and hence ...
Claudia Kelsall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Financial Liberalization, Political Connection and Audit Quality on the Cost of Debt

open access: yesInternational Journal of Financial Studies
We study the effect of financial liberalization, political connections, audit quality and the interaction of these factors on the cost of debt using a dataset for Vietnam for the period 2007–2024.
Ben Le   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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