Northern Kazakhstan whereas farm-yield insurance combined with an extensive technology is the preferred risk management option …Recent academic discussion regarding crop insurance in developing and transition countries has focused on weather index … insurance. But empirical analyses of such schemes based on farm level data cannot be found in the literature, though this …

response could be taken, as for example mitigation and insurance. This doctoral thesis focuses on the relation between the … insurance and the mitigation approach. It studies the impact of insurance instruments on mitigation of climate change. The main …

allows them to extend to consumers individually adjusted fair insurance offers. In a market which is characterized by … for the analysis in this thesis. Its purpose is to study the incentives of the agents in the car insurance market … in terms of the design of contracts and to the policy maker in terms of regulating the insurance market. After a short …

entitled Station Book-keeping, which was published in Australia in five editions over the period 1900 to 1937. The life and … career of the book's author, Francis Ernest Vigars, are also outlined. Station Book-keeping described and advocated a …

that parimutuel insurance intrinsically leads to participants being underinsured due to basis risk. Although participants … will be underinsured, parimutuel insurance guarantees no underlying risk borne by the issuer. We also derive the equivalent … transaction costs of traditional insurance relative to HuRLOs. The actual transaction cost for traditional insurance is found to …

other while their connection with Karaganda in central Kazakhstan is much weaker. Here, levelling out of price gaps through …

country – namely, the crop insurance system in Kazakhstan. Three objectives will be pursued: First, factors influencing the … development of the crop insurance market will be identified. Second, insurance’s capabilities to efficiently stabilize income … under transition circumstances will be evaluated. Finally, recommendations for developing crop insurance as an effective …

The paper evaluates the effectiveness ofseveral index-based crop insurance schemes bycomparing results from two … between two consecutiveperiods in the available time series: the first period isused for determining insurance parameters and … optimalnumber of farmer’s insurance contracts; and thesubsequent one is considered for the evaluation of therisk reduction due to …