Pricing weather insurance with a random strike price: The Ontario ice-wine harvest

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 696-709

  Turvey, Calum G ^a   Weersink, Alfons ^b   Chiang, Szu Hsuan Celia ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Pricing; Random strike price; Weather insurance

Indexed keywords

FRUIT PRODUCTION; HARVESTING; INSURANCE SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

VITACEAE; VITIS SP.;

EID: 33746252984     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8276.2006.00889.x     Document Type: Article

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