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Designing a whole-farm revenue insurance for agricultural crops in Zanjan province of Iran

open access: yesEconomía Agraria y Recursos Naturales, 2018
The purpose of this article is to design and empirically evaluate the Whole Farm Insurance (WFI) over the conventional insurance programs in Zanjan province of Iran.
Mohammad Ghahremanzadeh   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

International trade in GMOs: have markets paid premiums on Brazilian soybeans?

open access: yesRevista de Economia e Sociologia Rural, 2020
: The introduction of GMO technology into global market chains and the rejection by consumers in some markets have led to the reorganization of soybean trades.
Paulo Ricardo Silva Oliveira   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Myth of the Price Premium

open access: yesQuarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
A basic proposition of modern economics is the so-called price premium proposed by Irving Fisher (1907, 1922, 1930): the nominal rate of interest is composed of the real rate and a price, or inflation, premium that reflects the change in the value of money.
openaire   +1 more source

Risk Premiums in the German Day-Ahead Electricity Market [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper conducts an empirical analysis of risk premiums in the German day-ahead Electricity Wholesale Market. We compare hourly price data of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) auction and of the continuous over-the-counter (OTC) market taking place ...
Viehmann, Johannes
core  

Evidence of price premiums for non-GM grains in world markets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
World markets for a number of grains (soybeans, corn, canola and cottonseed) have become differentiated into GM, certified non-GM and organic segments, which has created opportunities and challenges for grain market participants.
Foster, Max
core   +1 more source

Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

open access: yesApplied 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
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Egg Price Volatility and Policy Implications in the U.S. With Machine Learning

open access: yesApplied 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
wiley   +1 more source

Customization of health insurance premiums using machine learning and explainable AI

open access: yesInternational Journal of Information Management Data Insights
This study presents an analysis of health insurance premiums across various customer segments. Specifically, it aims to identify the factors influencing the pricing of health insurance premiums, vis a vis their impact on different customer segments ...
Manohar Kapse   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unpacking the Farmland Capitalization Effect of Ethanol Establishment

open access: yesApplied 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

Crop Insurance Design and On‐Farm Risk Adaptation

open access: yesApplied 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
wiley   +1 more source

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