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Structuring Institutions To Share Local Weather Risk Globally

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  • Hao, Jianqiang
  • Skees, Jerry R.

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This paper envisions the national weather index as an efficient instrument to hedge the agricultural risk. The theoretical framework is established based on the partition of risk and the cost minimization. The Morocco case was applied and the result shows that the risk can be reduced to a larger extent.

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  • Hao, Jianqiang & Skees, Jerry R., 2003. "Structuring Institutions To Share Local Weather Risk Globally," 2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada 21973, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea03:21973
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.21973
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