...Eike Florenz Nordmeyer; Oliver Musshoff Purpose Satellite-retrieved vegetation health (VH) indices are under active consideration to be integrated into weather index insurance to reduce the basis risk and increase the attractiveness to farmers. The objective of this study is to obtain a deeper...

...Eike Florenz Nordmeyer; Oliver Musshoff Purpose Index insurance is promising to mitigate drought-related income losses in agriculture. To reduce the basis risk of index insurance, the integration of satellite data is of growing interest in research. The objective of this study is to obtain...

... temperatures are considered as ways to better predict yields. This research may be useful to policy makers by assessing the effectiveness of RIAFP. Index insurance differs from the traditional structure of contract insurance by paying indemnities not on actual verified losses but on a variable...

... or voluntary risk rationing. By exploiting randomized distribution of weather risk-contingent credit (RCC) and traditional credit, the authors estimate the causal effect of bundling weather index insurance to credit on uptake of agricultural credits among rural smallholders in Eastern Kenya. Further...

...Mitchell Roznik; Milton Boyd; Lysa Porth; C. Brock Porth Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine factors affecting the use of forage index insurance. Forage is a difficult crop to insure, and index insurance may be well suited for forage insurance and has been implemented in several...

... to: Ashlee Westerhold can be contacted at: ashleew@uidaho.edu 05 10 2017 28 02 2018 06 03 2018 13 03 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Risk management Index insurance Precipitation Perennial forage...

..., the work summarized here indicates that more careful design of index insurance contracts in conformity with the findings of behavioral economics could result in larger contract uptake and, ultimately, larger development impacts. The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. The first section...

.... Hereby the authors look at different risk aggregation levels across political regions (meso-level). The authors then design weather index insurance products able to compensate revenue losses identified and analyze their risk reduction potential. Design/methodology/approach – The authors design...

...Jerry R. Skees This article offers some perspective on the progress and challenges of managing catastrophic weather risk in lower income countries through the use of index insurance. Innovations in insurance for natural disaster risk are critically important to help the rural poor improve...

... to these investment alternatives as micro‐CAT bonds since the principle amounts would be small relative to the existing CAT bond market. Catastrophe risk Index insurance Reinsurance Socially responsible investing Weather risks © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 ...