Index-based weather insurances are innovative tools for mitigating weather risks in agriculture.Several donor agencies and development organisations are investing substantially topropagate these programmes in developing countries. However, often due to high basis risks,these products mitigate...

The optimisation of production plans is an important topic in agriculture, often related to diversificationand specialisation as the classical instruments of coping with production risk. Althoughthe measurement of embedded risk is often inaccurate, it is nevertheless necessary for decisionmaking...

The risks associated with farming activities are likely to increase in the future. It, therefore, appears worthwhile to analyse new risk management instruments. This paper investigates weather derivatives for which a market has already emerged in the USA. Contrary to traditional financial...

This paper investigates the farm level impacts of multiple peril yield and revenue insurance in an expected value-variance framework. The analysis is conducted using stochastic simulation jointly with numerical optimisation. Simulation is used to compute the means and variances of revenues as...

Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler erbringen vielfältige Leistungen in Forschung, Lehre, Transfer sowie Dienstleistungen für die Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft. Zur Beantwortung der Frage, wie diese verschiedenen Leistungen bewertet werden, wurde 2016 eine Mitgliederbefragung der...