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Agricultural insurances in Romania: present and future aspects
Mitu, Narcis Eduard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Concern for risks that stifle investment and contribute to vulnerability of the rural poor is a driving force behind various types of agricultural insurance. Insuring small-scale farmers against crop losses to adverse weather or other hazards has attracted public sector involvement in the...
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The potential use of derivatives to manage the price risk of seafood markets: the case of sole and cuttlefish in France
Bégué-Turon, Jean-Loïc; Perraudeau, Yves; Rautureau, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Taking into consideration the changes in the rules for the price support for agricultural and sea products, it seems appropriate to find out what other means could be used to cover the price risk in order to protect the commercial margin of these sectors of activity. The use of derivatives tools...
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The variance-minimizing hedge with put options
Bell, Peter N - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Certain commodity producers face uncertain output and price, but can trade financial derivatives on price. I consider how best to use a put option on price. I introduce the variance surface, which is a data visualization technique that shows the level of variance across a grid of values for the...
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Improving the Effectiveness of Weather-based Insurance: An Application of Copula Approach
Bokusheva, Raushan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The study develops the methodology for a copula-based weather index insurance rating. As the copula approach is better suited for modeling tail dependence than the standard linear correlation method, we suppose that copulas are more adequate for pricing a weather index insurance contract against...
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Riesgo Agropecuario: Incidencia Económica e Innovaciones para su mitigación. El caso de Argentina.
Miguel, Fusco; Dario, Bacchini; Esteban Otto, Thomasz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The aim of this paper is to summarise a variety of dimensions of agricultural risk in Argentina and to propose different lines of research related to an integrated risk management framework at the macro and micro levels. First, we analyse the incidence of the primary sector in the Argentinean...
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Истражување за подобрување на ефикасноста и ефективноста во распределбата на средствата од ИПАРД програмата...
Kovachev, Goran - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This policy document analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency in allocation and use of funds from the Fifth component of the Instrument for Pre-Accession of the European Union for rural development - IPARD in Macedonia. The findings and recommendations are based on previous observations of the...
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Evaluation of realized investments in Belgrade’s and Danube region
Subić, Jonel; Nastić, Lana; Jovanović, Marijana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
addition to other macroeconomic indicators show a high risk of investing in the entire economy, as well as in agriculture, as …
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AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD SECURITY POLICY IN ERITREA - AN ANALYSIS
Rena, Ravinder - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The main economic activity of the people of Eritrea is agriculture: crop production and livestock herding. Agriculture … mainly comprises mixed farming and some commercial concessions. Most agriculture is rain-fed. The main rain-fed crops are … assess the agriculture development and food policy in the country. Furthermore, the paper captures the available food …
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Credit Risk Models for Managing Bank’s Agricultural Loan Portfolio
Bandyopadhyay, Arindam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper, we have developed a credit scoring model for agricultural loan portfolio of a large Public Sector Bank in India and suggest how such model would help the Bank to mitigate risk in Agricultural lending. The logistic model developed in this study reflects major risk characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836178
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Credit Risk Models for Managing Bank’s Agricultural Loan Portfolio
Bandyopadhyay, Arindam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper, we have developed a credit scoring model for agricultural loan portfolio of a large Public Sector Bank in India and suggest how such model would help the Bank to mitigate risk in Agricultural lending. The logistic model developed in this study reflects major risk characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836284