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We analyze the current state and future requirements of an agricultural income stabilization mechanism in a transition 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...

The study introduces an ex-ante evaluation concept into the analysis of weather-based index insurance effectiveness. We conduct our ex ante analysis by distinguishing between two consecutive periods: the first period is used for determining insurance parameters and optimal number of insurance...

The paper evaluates the effectiveness ofseveral index-based crop insurance schemes bycomparing results from two alternative evaluationapproaches. We apply the common ex post approachfrom the literature by specifying and evaluatinginsurance contracts by means of the data for the samehistorical...

This paper deals with derivation and estimation of the risk preference function in the presence of output price uncertainty. The derivation depends neither on a specific parametric form of the utility function nor on any distribution of output price. The risk preference function is flexible...