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 weather conditions in different locations, looking...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review some challenges of insuring weather risk in agriculture and to discuss potential remedies for these problems. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is developed as a narrative on weather insurance based largely on existing literature....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the aggregate demand for single- and multi-year crop insurance contracts and to discuss market potential for multi-year crop insurances. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper the authors develop a dynamic discrete choice model of...

Der Aufsatz versucht einen Erklärungsbeitrag für das Wechselverhalten von Landwirten zwischen konventionellem und ökologischem Landbau zu leisten. Ausgehend von der Feststellung, dass die Umstellung auf ökologischen Landbau mit versunkenen Kosten verbunden ist und die Rückflüsse daraus...