crisis and unstable legislative and fiscal framework. In this situation, the importance of the insurance market should be … resources working specialization Iasi insurance market. Objectives considered concerns: the testing of skills for implementing …

events: insurance, weather reserves, weather derivatives, and budget provision. Despite the threat of climate change …

The most prevalent incentive problem in the U.S. unemployment insurance system is that individuals collect unemployment … benefits while being gainfully employed. We show how the unemployment insurance authority can efficiently use a combination of …

The consequences of business cycle contingencies in unemployment insurance systems are considered in a search …-matching model allowing for shifts between "good" and "bad" states of nature. We show that not only is there an insurance argument …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the losses of weather-related insurance at different regional levels …. The possibility of spatial diversification of insurance is explored by estimating the joint occurrence on unfavorable … increasing the trading area of insurance is limited. Research limitations/implications – The empirical findings are limited by a …

Purpose – While the demand for weather-based agricultural insurance in developed regions is limited, there exists … from observed historical data. An example drought insurance policy is presented where the fair rates are calculated using …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the spatial components of producer heterogeneity in crop insurance …. Design/methodology/approach – County-level insurance and yield data are used to demonstrate that a gradual shift from yield …-based insurance to revenue-based insurance has spatial patterns. Conventional risk variables such as yield variability, price …

Between 1988 and 1997, the percentage of children in New York and New Jersey receiving public health insurance … increased modestly, while the percentage of children with private insurance showed a sharp decline. The net effect of these … changes has been a marked rise in the share of Second District children without any health insurance. …