Coping with systemic risk in index-based crop insurance

Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-13

  Shen, Zhiwei ^a   Odening, Martin ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crop insurance; Equilibrium pricing; Risk pooling; Securitization; Systemic risk

Indexed keywords

CROP; INSURANCE SYSTEM; INVESTMENT; MARKETING; PRICE DETERMINATION; REGIONAL PATTERN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CHINA;

EID: 84872275807     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2012.00625.x     Document Type: Article

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