assess the risk mitigation capacity of weather index-based insurance for cotton farmers. We compare the ability of various … give a tractable definition of basis risk and use it to show that weather index-based insurance is associated with a large … significantly decreases the basis risk, compared to using simulated sowing dates. Finally we found that the gain of the weather …

assess the risk mitigation capacity of weather index-based insurance for cotton farmers. We compare the ability of various … give a tractable definition of basis risk and use it to show that weather index-based insurance is associated with a large … dates. Finally we find that the gain of the weather-index based insurance is lower than that of hedging against cotton price …

, results underline the limited impact of weather on the interconnection of these markets. …

that mobility plays in the behavior of prolific inventors, whom we identify based on the number of patents exceeding a … threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one technical field to … invention value, (2) inter-firm mobility is a consistently positive determinant of productivity and (3) technological mobility …

How much economic mobility is there across generations in a poor, primarily rural, economy? How much do … degree of mobility across generations, associated with the shift from farm to non-farm sectors and greater economic activity …

This paper investigates the combined impact of a first-mover advantage and of firms' limited mobility on the … development uncertainty and may enter by investing in lumpy capacity units. With perfect mobility, when the first entrant plays as … result is not robust to the introduction of firm-specific limited mobility constraints. If one firm is sufficiently less able …