This paper provides novel evidence on how risk exposure shapes the demand for index-based weather insurance. The focus … explained by insurance purchasers adapting their risk perception in response to recent weather risks. The findings of this paper … weather events that cause high livestock mortality. Using a two-way fixed effect model and country-wide district-level data …

One of the key components of financial risk management is risk measurement. This typically requires modeling …

make changes regarding risk management and the need to build a better program of resilience in the face of change and … ecosystem change, yet unusual weather events, and the consequences of some social-ecological changes already undertaken around …

traditional insurances. However, the weather index-based insurances present the limit of the basis risk: a significant yield loss …The weather index-based insurances may help farmers to cope with climate risks overcoming the most common issues of … may occur although the weather index does not trigger the indemnification, or a compensation may be granted even if there …