a significant portion of a crop insurer's budget, therefore, this study should be useful for crop insurance companies to … first paper to show how a crop insurance firm can optimally select a reinsurance contract structure that minimizes its total …

Purpose – In Australia broadacre crops can be insured against hail and fire damage and some other perils but not … insurance in Western Australia. Design/methodology/approach – A farm survey was conducted with the cooperation of dryland … farmers belonging to Western Australian grower groups. The willingness to pay for hail insurance is modelled as a function of …

altered crop insurance expected loss cost ratios across time. Because loss experience is used to set rates for the program …-level regression models were estimated to test for trends and structural changes in the loss experience for major crops (corn, soybeans … several crops and regions, a significant break point in the loss cost data is found at 1995. This is consistent with the …

daily temperature and precipitation data collected by selected weather stations over several years. Insurance is structured …

Insurance program stemming from changes in participation rates as well as the weighting of data to reflect longer-run weather …

wide-spread systemic risk throughout large swaths of China. During these periods farmers' crops are at risk and for a … to investigate the willingness of Shaanxi and Gansu farmers to purchase weather insurance. Design … specifically to extract willingness to pay for weather insurance. Factor affecting willingness to pay are explained using linear …