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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"index insurance"”.
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Assessing the role of weather index insurance in climate change adaptation in Malawi
… of climate change on their livelihoods. Weather index insurance (WII) has been recommended as one potential climate change adaptation strategy. In Malawi WII was introduced and piloted in 2005 to help farmers get access to loans. In this study the implementation of WII in Malawi is assessed to …
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Assessing the feasibility of a weather index insurance for the semi-arid region of Brazil
Weather index insurance (WII) has long been advertised as a viable alternative to overcome issues related to crop yield insurance products like information asymmetry and high transaction costs. WII products were firstly developed to assist climate-vulnerable farmers from developing countries where …
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Improving Rainfall Index Insurance: Evaluating Effects of Fine-Scale Data and Interactive Tools in the PRF-RI Program
… the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Rainfall Index (PRF-RI) insurance program has issued a total of $8.8 billion in payouts. Given the program's significance, this thesis investigates methodologies to help improve it. For the first part, we evaluated the impact of finer-scale precipitation …
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Microfinance and Mobile phones: an economic analysis of the perceptions, management and measurement of environmental risk in rural Kenya
… nearly 200,000 adoptions of a pioneering weather index insurance that was bundled with a hybrid seed product and available over several seasons. The first empirical chapter econometrically explores the role of basis risk in the continued uptake of the bundled index insurance product. The findings …
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Managing impacts of hydrological droughts and heat waves on thermal power plants
… thermal power plant cooling water risk with index insurance contracts is evaluated. Results show that linear index insurance contracts can hedge the effect of cooling water temperature on power plant thermodynamics, but cannot mitigate risk due to thermal pollution regulations effectively. …
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Three essays on agricultural risk and insurance
… of this dissertation is agricultural risk and insurance in the United States. Chapter 2 examines welfare effects of the 2002 farm bill programs and yield insurance as well as their impacts on acreage decision of a representative Iowa farmer. Instead of measuring welfare using expected utility …
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MEDICAID ENROLLMENT PATTERNS AND SERVICE UTILIZATION OF EPILEPSY PATIENTS IN OHIO
… cases, the magnitude and predictors of recurrent insurance gaps, and the causal effect of antiepileptic drug (AED) refill compliance on emergency department (ED) visit in the presence of insurance gaps.We identified three years as the optimum disease-free period for defining incident epilepsy …
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Behavioural economic applications to climate change mitigation and adaptation: public good games and risk experiments
… paper "Risk Preferences, Technology Adoption and Insurance Uptake" uses lottery tasks and a framed insurance game to examine whether the provision of a framed index insurance product induces individuals to opt into riskier but potentially more profitable activities. Experiment participants are …
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Cultivating risk : weather insurance, technology and financialization in India
… of specific cases. Since 2007, India's weather insurance programs have become the largest in the world offering farmers access to new financial instruments and automated technologies to manage the increasing risks of agricultural cultivation. Insurance has come to be seen as a systematic …