to receive more up-to-date information about insurance in agriculture. Accordingly, we have tried to shed light on the … main aspects of insurance as one tool of risk management in agriculture. Thus, our purpose is to give the reader … information on principles and potential of insurance, its main problems and possible solutions. Additionally, this paper provides …

security used to hedge the risk is similar to a CAT bond. This work looks at the incentives associated with insurance …

purchases a good to compensate consequen¬ces of unfavorable events, such as an accident or an illness. Insurance policies in … most lines of insurance base indemnity on the insured’s actual expenses, i.e., the insured would be partially or completely … reimbursed when purchasing certain goods. In this setting we discuss the interaction between insurance and repair markets by …

Recent events involving major insurance companies and insurance brokerage firms highlight substantial incentive … without intermediation. A controversial matter in the discussion concerning insurance intermediation is the issue of … by insurance companies. The rationale for the latter is the fact that a fee paid by uninformed consumers limits the …

This discussion paper considers insurance as a possible instrument of farm income stabilization and compares several … crop insurance products with respect to their applicability in a transition economy using the case of Kazakhstan. The … analysis is based on a qualitative evaluation as well a quantitative assessment of selected insurance products. The qualitative …

conditions, risk attitudes and risk management techniques with respect to the requirements of a functioning crop insurance system …