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| Skees, Jerry R.. |
| This article focuses on innovation in weather insurance designed to fit the special circum-stances of the poor in lower income countries where rural and agricultural financial markets are largely underdeveloped. Index insurance is an innovation that circumvents many of the fundamental problems that hamper the development of insurance for weather risks in lower in-come countries. With index insurance, payments are made based upon an objective and inde-pendent index that serves as a proxy for significant losses to crops, livestock, or other prop-erty. For example, the index can be based upon extreme rainfall measures that create either drought or flooding. Weather stations or even satellite imagery coupled with computer models can be used to create reliable... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Index insurance; Financial innovation for the poor; Weather insurance; Correlated risk; Poverty trap; Ex ante risk managemen; Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44733 |
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| Nutt, Perry J.; Reed, Michael R.; Skees, Jerry R.. |
| This study reports results of an acreage supply equation using individual farm data and develops implications for bias introduced by use of aggregate data. The analysis shows that use of aggregate acreage response models underestimates the absolute value of price elasticities and the lagged adjustment process. Further, aggregated analyses cannot incorporate some variables found to be important in explaining from level acreage response. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 1986 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/29783 |
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| Goes, Anne; Skees, Jerry R.. |
| The scale of loss from natural disasters in low-income countries often exceeds the resources of internal and external sources of relief funding. Catastrophe bonds offer the opportunity to transfer the risk of low-probability, high-loss events to the capital market where there is greater capacity to absorb disaster losses. This paper details some problems inherent in traditional sources of disaster relief and proposes an alternative mechanism for catastrophe risk transfer that unites financial innovations and donor communities. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22188 |
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| Hou, Jiang; Skees, Jerry R.; Veeramani, Venkat N.. |
| One of the key factors affecting the crop output is the rainfall volume. For this reason, insurance plans based on the rainfall deviation of the mean have been advanced. This paper provides prospects of rainfall-indexed insurance in Romania considering the tradeoff between moral hazard and basis risks. The reasonability of rainfall-indexed insurance will be judged first. The basic parameters will then be determined and the effectiveness will be measured. Finally, microfinance programs combined with indexed insurance will be advanced to deal with the basis risk problems, which also are the goals for further study |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/20158 |
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| Skees, Jerry R.; Barnett, Barry J.; Hartell, Jason G.. |
| Markets for transferring catastrophic risk in agriculture are woefully lacking in developing countries. Even in developed countries, markets for transferring the risk of crop losses caused by natural hazards generally exist only with large government subsidies. However, such subsidies can be expensive, inefficient, and have detrimental implications that make future catastrophes even worse. In developing countries fiscal constraints limit the degree to which governments can subsidize markets for agricultural risk-sharing. Nonetheless, there are specific things governments can do to facilitate the development of these markets. This paper addresses the role of government in agricultural risk-sharing for natural disasters that impact crop yields or livestock... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Risk and Uncertainty; D8; H5; Q14; Q18; Q54. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25548 |
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| Skees, Jerry R.. |
| This article challenges the traditional model of the economist as a humble technocrat who simply provides analysis given the preferences of policy decision-makers. Since decision-makers rarely reveal their preferences, it is important that the would-be policy research/analyst know the political economy and be willing to identify potential performance goals for society. Researchers who are willing to incur the transaction cost associated with becoming involved in useful policy research must learn to work within the imperfect policy process. Policy research that considers the importance of implementation and that acknowledges the institutions and the history will have the highest chance of being useful to policy-makers. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Implementation; Institutions; Policy research; Political economy; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 1994 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15440 |
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