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Reinsuring Group Revenue Insurance with Exchange-Provided Revenue Contracts

Babcock, Bruce A.; Hayes, Dermot J.; Griffin, Steven C. - 1999

Building on recent work by Mirand and Glauber (1997), this report shows that it is feasible to use exchange-based contracts as a substitute for the Standard Reinsurance Agreement (SRA). The contract we analyze here is a Group Revenue Contract, which would allow producers to guarantee against...

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The Application and Modification of Delegation - Agent model in Agricultural Insurance

Xue, Hai-Lian; Zhang, Hai-Xia - 2010

The delegation-agent models in agricultural assurance are established both under the circumstances of information symmetry and information asymmetry. Insurers choose effort level —a* according to the first order optimal condition of at the present stage when the information is symmetric. While...

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El nuevo seguro de ingresos de la patata: una evaluacion preliminar

Estavillo, Julio; Aguado, Salomon; Bielza, Maria; … - 2005

En 2003 y 2004, se ofreció por primera vez en España un seguro que protege contra la caída de precios en origen de un producto agrícola. Se trata de un seguro de rentas lanzado con carácter piloto para las producciones de patata de media estación y patata tardía en cinco provincias...

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El seguro de ingresos como instrumento de estabilizacion de las rentas de los agricultores: aplicacion al sector olivarero espanol

Bielza, Maria; Garrido, Alberto; Sumpsi, Jose Maria - 2002

RESUMEN: En este artículo se analizan un conjunto de políticas de estabilización de los ingresos de los productores olivareros españoles, entre las que se incluyen seguros de rendimientos e ingresos. En teoría y bajo ciertos supuestos, la estabilización de los ingresos con un seguro de...

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DEMAND FOR RAINFALL-INDEX BASED INSURANCE: A CASE STUDY FROM MOROCCO

McCarthy, Nancy - 2003

In this paper, we derive estimates for willingness to pay for rainfall-index based insurance contracts. Surveys were undertaken in four regions in Morocco, representing different mean and variability of rainfall conditions. Results indicate that respondents in the high variability regions...

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Revisiting the demand of agricultural insurance: The case of Spain

Garrido, Alberto; Zilberman, David - 2007

We use the actual insurance records of 52,300 farmers and 11 years to estimate two sets of insurance demands. We define measures of insurance's expected returns, variance and third moment, based on observed insurance data, and infer the expected returns for those farmers that have never had an...

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Assessment of Biotechnology Policies and International Trade in Key Markets for U.S. Agriculture

Marchant, Mary A.; Song, Baohui - 2005

The United States leads the world in agricultural biotechnology research, adoption, commercialization, and exports. Our biotech commodities are highly dependent on international markets. Thus, any biotech policy changes by key importing countries may affect U.S. agricultural biotech product...

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Effects of trade agreements on the integration of cotton prices in domestic and foreign markets

Sousa, Eliane Pinheiro de; Campos, Antonio Carvalho - 2009

among theinternal and external prices of the cotton of january of 1990 to february of 2009. Forthat, they were employees the … of the analyzed samples, indicating that variations of price of the cotton happened at a market is reviewed to the other …

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What Drives Commodity Prices More: Oil Demand or Supply Shocks?

Mutuc, Maria; Pan, Suwen; Hudson, Darren - 2010

the crude oil market. In the long-run, around 2-7 percent of the variability in grains, oilseeds, and cotton prices can be …

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Cotton Futures Dynamics: Structural Change, Index Traders and the Returns to Storage

Power, Gabriel J.; Robinson, John R.C. - 2009

Traders, on the well-functioning of futures markets and underlyingcommodity markets. Cotton is a relatively under … changes in cotton economic fundamentals? (2) Have seasonaland long-run patterns of convenience yield and price volatility … suggest that traditional, well-established economicrelationships for cotton futures markets clearly have been disrupted during …

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