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The use of climate information in economic activities, typically provided by climate services, may serve as a possible adaptation strategy to changing climate conditions. The present paper analyzes the value of climate services aimed at improving agricultural productivity through a reduction in...
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willingness to pay. Basis risk does not seem to be a major constraint. …
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The use of climate information in economic activities, typically provided by climate services, may serve as a possible adaptation strategy to changing climate conditions. The present paper analyzes the value of climate services aimed at improving agricultural productivity through a reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753295
not necessarily imply that social insurance programs should be expanded. Inasmuch as disaster risk management policies at … the national level are typically without coherent foundations, we provide tentative indications of how the farm level risk …
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year, depending on the forecast accuracy and agents' risk aversion. In a last step, using the observational data from the …
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Climate change increases weather variability, exacerbating agricultural risk in poor countries. Risk-averse farmers are …
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model captures the feature that the effects of uncertainty are different with different levels of agent's risk aversion. A …
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Continuous time is a superior representation of both the economic and climate systems that Integrated Assessment Models (IAM) aim to study. Moreover, continuous-time representations are simple to express. Continuous-time models are usually solved by discretizing time, but the quality of a...
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Dynamic programming is the essential tool in dynamic economic analysis. Problems such as portfolio allocation for individuals and optimal economic growth are typical examples. Numerical methods typically approximate the value function. Recent work has focused on making numerical methods more...
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proposing a novel news media-based measure of climate change transition risk and show that when such risk is high, major …
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