traded weather derivatives to hedge agriculturalproduction and insurance risk. …

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 …

The failure of the development of commercially viable traditional crop insurance products and innovations in financial … exposure. Salient among these is the proposal of several index insurance schemes against weather events. Among the basic tenets … are that the presence of index insurance allows producers to intensify their operations and reduce the risks of default …

This article focuses on innovation in weather insurance designed to fit the special circum-stances of the poor in lower … income countries where rural and agricultural financial markets are largely underdeveloped. Index insurance is an innovation … that circumvents many of the fundamental problems that hamper the development of insurance for weather risks in lower in …

insurance contract’s expected indemnity and further create a major obstacle for insurance sectors. In this paper, we undertake a … case study of El Niño-Southern Oscillation Index insurance for coastal Peru proposed by Skees. We examined the behavior of …-Southern Oscillation Index insurance contract. …

production function, we quantify and compare the risk exposure of grain producers with and without rainfall insurance. It turns …

by strong typhoon winds.The insurance products are designed assuming negative linear correlation between wind speedand … basis risks of the order of 99%. Typhoons damage allcrops, but wind indexed insurance is inadequate when the insured crop …,a thorough burn analysis for basis risk is a necessity before investing time and moneyimplementing index-based weather insurance …

production function we quantify and compare the risk exposure of grain producers with and without rainfall insurance. It turns …