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 …

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 …

Diese Dissertation besteht aus drei eigenständigen theoretischen Aufsätzen, in denen das Kreditrisiko von Firmen, die …

Verbriefungstransaktionen sind sogenannte collateralized debt obligations, kurz CDOs, die sich auf das Kreditrisiko von Portfolios bestehend aus …

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 … insurance type shows clear advantages compared to multiple-peril crop insurance and revenue insurance. Recent empirical …

A wide variety of insurance products is available to agricultural producers to insure against yield or price risks in … over the last decade. This paper outlines the development of an insurance product aimed at corn producers who are members …

The vast majority of crop and revenue insurance policies sold in the United States are single-crop policies that insure … uses an insurance approach to outline a risk management tool which mimics the gross margin level of a typical corn …