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Systemic weather risk is a major obstacle for the formation of private (nonsubsidized)crop insurance. This paper explores the possibility of spatial diversification of insurance by estimating the joint occurrence of unfavorable weather conditions in different locations.For that purpose copula...
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Systemic weather risk is a major obstacle for the formation of private (nonsubsidized) crop insurance. This paper explores the possibility of spatial diversification of insurance by estimating the joint occurrence of unfavorable weather conditions in different locations. For that purpose copula...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444820
present study analyzes the adoption decision and the impact of bund technology and dibbling method on fertilizer demand … significant effect on fertilizer demand, as well as a positive, but insignificant impact on output supply and net returns …. Adopters of dibbling appear to have higher rice yields, while no significant difference in net returns and fertilizer demand …
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In this paper we price a precipitation option based on empirical weather data from Germany using different pricing methods, among them Burn Analysis, Index Value Simulation and Daily Simulation. For that purpose we develop a daily precipitation model. Moreover, a decorrelation analysis is...
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In this paper we price a precipitation option based on empirical weather data from Germany using different pricing methods, among them the burn analysis, index value simulation and daily simulation. For that purpose we develop a daily precipitation model. Moreover, a decorrelation analysis is...
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Replaced with revised version of paper 06/17/08.
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The risks associated with farming activities are likely to increase in the future. It, therefore, appears worthwhile to analyse new risk management instruments. This paper investigates weather derivatives for which a market has already emerged in the USA. Contrary to traditional financial...
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Agricultural insurance in Ukraine is mostly offered on the basis of traditional products includingPMCI, named perils and single peril coverage. The index concept was introduced in 2001 thoughuntil 2005 the insurance companies provided index crop insurance through area-based yield indexprogram....
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Many governments in developing countries distribute fertilizer at subsidized prices to stimulate fertilizer use and … agricultural productivity. However, the extent to which government fertilizer subsidy programs affect private suppliers' sales of … fertilizer is largely unknown and subject to considerable debate. This paper models farmer input use decisions in a two …
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