Rainfall is an important source of covariate shock in developing countries. Insurance against a rainfall index has …, therefore, held much promise as a formal insurance product to protect the livelihoods of poor farmers. But how good is rainfall … index insurance. Using district crop yields and rainfall data for India, we find that tail dependence characterizes the …

In this paper we analyze insurance demand when the utility function depends both upon final wealth and the level of … documented in real insurance markets. …