Designing epidemic livestock insurance

The Economics of Livestock Disease Insurance: Concepts, Issues and Internaitonal Case Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 126-140

  Meuwissen, Miranda P M ^a   Van Asseldonk, Marcel A P M ^a   Skees, Jerry R ^b   Huirne, Ruud B M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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