This article considers the potential for securitizing index‐based insurance products that transfer weather and natural disaster risks from lower income countries. It begins with a brief overview explaining why markets for natural disaster risks are important, yet often missing, in lower income...

Agricultural yields depend on an encompassing set of technical and environmental factors. The development of such factors often is not fully observable, and their interactions and impacts on yields have not been completely understood. This paper proposes a Bayesian method for forming...

The use of credit card has increased tremendously in the past few years because of the boom in the economy which has also resulted in the increase in the credit card fraud cases. Various leading banks and software development companies worldwide are taking serious measures to deal with the...