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We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...

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The impact of weather insurance on consumption, investment, and welfare

De Nicola, Francesca - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 6 (2015) 3, pp. 637-661

I develop and estimate a dynamic stochastic optimization model to assess the impact of weather insurance on the … consumption, investment, and welfare of farmers in developing countries. Weather insurance has the potential to provide large …

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The Impact of Weather Insurance on Consumption, Investment, and Welfare

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Weather derivatives risk measures for extreme events

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Semiparametric copula-based stochastic weather generator

Juárez-Torres, Miriam; Richardson, James W.; Vedenov, … - 2013

Stochastic Weather Generators (SWGs) try to replicate the stochastic patterns of climatological variables characterized …, conventional SWGs usually typify weather variables with not always justified probability distributions assuming linear dependence … replication of stochastic weather patterns. The semiparametric copula-based SWG introduces more exibility allowing researcher to …

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