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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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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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Understanding Egg Price Volatility and Policy Implications in the U.S. With Machine Learning
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Eggs are an inexpensive and sustainable source of proteins, but volatility in the U.S. egg prices has intensified in recent years, raising concerns over food affordability and market stability. This study examines the drivers of U.S. egg price dynamics over 2004–2025 using a two‐stage framework that combines LASSO‐based variable selection with
Xuemei Zhao +3 more
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REVIEW: Mixed bag with an eye on PBRF deadline
Pacific Journalism Review, 2012 There is a very good and useful book waiting to escape from this collection on journalism and public affairs in New Zealand. Its editorial troika of scholars (from three different universities) have set themselves laudable but editorially exacting goals,
Joe Atkinson
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Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah +3 more
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Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We unpack the impact of expansions in ethanol production—as measured by proximity to newly constructed ethanol plants and capacity expansions—on farmland values using land transaction data from Kansas in combination with modern causal inference techniques.
Gabriel S. Sampson, Jisang Yu
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Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and PracticeBackground Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) pose a significant global health challenge. In LMICs, NCDs are an incresing driver of premature deaths and have substantial economic impacts, particularly on working-age adults.
Arianna Gentilini +2 more
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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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From revolution to inflation: the economic consequences of the Arab spring on Yemen’s food prices
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThe Arab Spring began with the hope of restoring democracy but ended in a turmoil. The economic costs of Arab uprisings need to be estimated. This study aims to estimate the economic cost of the Arab uprisings in terms of food inflation.
Md Abdul Bari +3 more
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Foundations and Trends in Accounting, 2021 This monograph reviews the academic literature on market outcomes, reporting practices and the political economy behind the global use of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We start with a conceptual discussion of expected benefits and costs of an international harmonization of accounting regulation and explain why predictions on ...
Becker, Kirstin +2 more
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