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TRAVEL RISKS INSURANCE: PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND PRACTICE

Economies' Horizons, 2018
У статті розкрито сутність та специфічні риси туристичних ризиків, розглянуто специфіку страхового захисту учасників туристичного ринку від їх впливу. Охарактеризовано систему послуг щодо забезпечення страхового захисту від ризикових ситуацій під час туристичної подорожі громадян, окреслено проблеми, що виникають при цьому, запропоновано шляхи їх розв ...
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From ransoms to ruin: Are extortion payments by ransomware victims insurable?

Data & Policy
Cyber risk is an important consideration in today’s risk management and insurance industries. However, the statistical features of cyber risk, including concerns of solvency for cyber insurance providers, are still emerging.
Divya Ramjee, Eireann Leverett
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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

Study on the influencing factors of fishery producers' willingness to participate in aquaculture insurance--based on the perspective of subjective norms and risk perception

Aquaculture and Fisheries
The development of aquaculture is an important way to ensure the diversification of China's food supply and food safety. As a market-oriented risk management tool, aquaculture insurance plays a vital role in enhancing the risk resistance of China's ...
Siyu Xu, Jianjun Wang, Ning Cao
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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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Research on Farmers’ Agricultural Disaster Insurance Purchase Decisions and Policy Implications Under Land Trusteeship

Land
Land trusteeship is an innovative agricultural management model that connects smallholder farmers with modern agriculture. It promotes large-scale agricultural operations, but still faces the impacts of conventional natural disasters.
Jianying Xiao, Zhong Yang, Yujie Huo
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang, Lena Kuhn, Hang Xiong, Zhanli Sun, Thomas Glauben   +4 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Financial Instruments to Transfer the Information Security Risks

Future Internet, 2016
For many individuals and organizations, cyber-insurance is the most practical and only way of handling a major financial impact of an information security event.
Pankaj Pandey, Einar Snekkenes
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