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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

Capacity to build the structure of Shiite political jurisprudence in the ideal political system [PDF]

علوم سیاسی, 2019
The purpose of the present study was to explore the potentials of the relationship between spirituality and social justice. The research with descriptive-analytical method sought to address the question of which reading of spirituality and due to having ...
Seyed Sajjad Izdehi, mohammad zaki ahmadi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Simon Meister, Lucie Maruejols, Xiaohua Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Journalism and the political structure

Nordicom Review, 2019
This article assumes a media system perspective on the local news media structure in Norway, using a dataset of 847,487 news articles collected from 156 Norwegian news outlets in 2015–2017. Using a series of hypotheses, the analysis uses Latent Dirichlet
Sjøvaag Helle, Pedersen Truls André, Lægreid Ole Martin   +2 more
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Political technologies: structural and functional indifference

Управление, 2020
The problem field of understanding the essence of political technologies has been defined in the article. The nature of political technologies has been analysed. Semantic components of political technologies have been studied.
O. N. Zabuzov
doaj   +1 more source

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, Obed Quaicoe, Fafanyo Asiseh, John N. Ng'ombe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the Impact of Oil on the Political Structure of Iraq in the Framework of the Rentier State Theory

Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science
Iraq is a sensitive and geopolitical region in the Middle East from a civilizational point of view, oil, as the most important source of income for the Iraqi government, which provides more than 90% of the annual budget of the government, and this had a ...
Sayeed Ahmad Khalid Sharifi, Taj Mohammad Majidi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Political origins of financial structure [PDF]

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013
Abstract There is growing policy interest in the role of financial structure in promoting development. However, very little is known about how different financial structures emerge and evolve. In this paper we empirically assess the political origins of financial structure.
openaire   +3 more sources