IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea09/49362.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Weather Risk and the Viability of Weather Insurance In Western China

Author

Listed:
  • Turvey, Calum G.
  • Kong, Rong
  • Belltawn, Burgen

Abstract

This paper presents preliminary results on the possible demand for weather insurance in China. Results from 1,564 farm households from Western and Central China between October 2007 and October 2008 suggest that the greater risk for farmers is drought followed by excessive rain. Heat is less critical as a risk but more significant than cool weather. Results suggest a strong interest in precipitation insurance with 50% and 44% of respondents indicating strong interest in the product. Supplementary results indicate that interest is equal between planting, cultivating, and harvesting. Furthermore results suggest that farmers are willing to adopt new ideas, and where possible already take action to self insure through diversification and other means, The results are encouraging. Examples and discussion of how weather insurance can be implemented is included in the text.

Suggested Citation

  • Turvey, Calum G. & Kong, Rong & Belltawn, Burgen, 2009. "Weather Risk and the Viability of Weather Insurance In Western China," 2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 49362, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea09:49362
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.49362
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/49362/files/Weather%20Risk%20in%20China.aaea.Paper.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.49362?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Oliver Musshoff & Norbert Hirschauer & Martin Odening, 2008. "Portfolio effects and the willingness to pay for weather insurances," Agricultural Finance Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 68(1), pages 83-97, May.
    2. Turvey, Calum G. & Norton, Michael T., 2008. "An Internet-Based Tool for Weather Risk Management," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, vol. 37(1), pages 1-16, April.
    3. Richards, Timothy J. & Manfredo, Mark R. & Sanders, Dwight R., 2004. "Pricing Weather Derivatives," Working Papers 28536, Arizona State University, Morrison School of Agribusiness and Resource Management.
    4. Calum G. Turvey, 2008. "The pricing, structure, and function of weather‐linked bonds, mortgages, and operating credit," Agricultural Finance Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 68(1), pages 135-150, May.
    5. Timothy J. Richards & James Eaves & Valerie Fournier & S.E. Naranjo & C.-C. Chu & T.J. Henneberry, 2006. "Managing economic risk caused by insects: bug options," Agricultural Finance Review, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 66(1), pages 27-45, May.
    6. Joshua D. Woodard & Philip Garcia, 2008. "Basis risk and weather hedging effectiveness," Agricultural Finance Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 68(1), pages 99-117, May.
    7. Skees, Jerry R., 2008. "Innovations in Index Insurance for the Poor in Lower Income Countries," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, vol. 37(1), pages 1-15, April.
    8. T.J. Richards & J. Eaves & M. Manfredo & S.E. Naranjo & C.-C. Chu & T.J. Henneberry, 2008. "Spatial-Temporal Model of Insect Growth, Diffusion and Derivative Pricing," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 90(4), pages 962-978.
    9. Martin Odening & Oliver Musshoff & Wei Xu, 2007. "Analysis of rainfall derivatives using daily precipitation models: opportunities and pitfalls," Agricultural Finance Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 67(1), pages 135-156, May.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Baojing Sun & Changhao Guo & G. Cornelis van Kooten, 2013. "Weather Derivatives and Crop Insurance in China," Working Papers 2013-02, University of Victoria, Department of Economics, Resource Economics and Policy Analysis Research Group.
    2. Linging Hou & Dana L.K. Hoag & Yueying Mu, 2011. "Testing for adverse selection of crop insurance in northern China," China Agricultural Economic Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 3(4), pages 462-475, November.
    3. Sun, Baojing & van Kooten, G. Cornelis, 2012. "Climate Impacts on Chinese Corn Yields: A Fractional Polynomial Regression Model," Working Papers 127966, University of Victoria, Resource Economics and Policy.
    4. Baojing Sun & G. Cornelis van Kooten, 2014. "Financial Weather Options for Crop Production," Working Papers 2014-03, University of Victoria, Department of Economics, Resource Economics and Policy Analysis Research Group.
    5. Sun, Baojing, 2017. "Financial Weather Derivatives for Corn Production in Northeastern China: Modelling the Underlying Weather Index," Working Papers 257083, University of Victoria, Resource Economics and Policy.
    6. Baojing Sun, 2017. "Financial Weather Derivatives for Corn Production in Northeastern China: Modelling the underlying Weather Index," Working Papers 2017-05, University of Victoria, Department of Economics, Resource Economics and Policy Analysis Research Group.
    7. Filonov, Vitaly & Vedenov, Dmitry V., 2011. "Applications of copulas to Analysis of Efficiency of Weather Derivatives as Primary Crop Insurance Instruments," 2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 103972, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    8. Sun, Baojing, 2017. "Financial Weather Derivatives for Corn Production in Northeastern China: Modelling the underlying Weather Index," Working Papers 263197, University of Victoria, Resource Economics and Policy.
    9. Sun, Baojing & van Kooten, G. Cornelis, 2015. "Financial weather derivatives for corn production in Northern China: A comparison of pricing methods," Journal of Empirical Finance, Elsevier, vol. 32(C), pages 201-209.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Doms, Juliane, 2017. "Put, call or strangle? About the challenges in designing weather index insurances to hedge performance risk in agriculture," 57th Annual Conference, Weihenstephan, Germany, September 13-15, 2017 261990, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA).
    2. Bucheli, Janic & Dalhaus, Tobias & Finger, Robert, 2022. "Temperature effects on crop yields in heat index insurance," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 107(C).
    3. Markus Stowasser, 2011. "Modelling rain risk: a multi-order Markov chain model approach," Journal of Risk Finance, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 13(1), pages 45-60, December.
    4. Andrea Martínez Salgueiro & Maria-Antonia Tarrazon-Rodon, 2021. "Weather derivatives to mitigate meteorological risks in tourism management: An empirical application to celebrations of Comunidad Valenciana (Spain)," Tourism Economics, , vol. 27(4), pages 591-613, June.
    5. Andrea Martínez Salgueiro & Maria-Antonia Tarrazon-Rodon, 2020. "Approaching rainfall-based weather derivatives pricing and operational challenges," Review of Derivatives Research, Springer, vol. 23(2), pages 163-190, July.
    6. Xu, Wei & Odening, Martin & Musshoff, Oliver, 2007. "Indifference Pricing of Weather Insurance," 101st Seminar, July 5-6, 2007, Berlin Germany 9267, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    7. Mußhoff, O. & Odenin, M. & Wei, X., 2007. "Zur Quantifizierung des Basisrisikos von Wetterderivaten," Proceedings “Schriften der Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaues e.V.”, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA), vol. 42, March.
    8. Rong Kong & Calum G. Turvey & Guangwen He & Jiujie Ma & Patrick Meagher, 2011. "Factors influencing Shaanxi and Gansu farmers' willingness to purchase weather insurance," China Agricultural Economic Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 3(4), pages 423-440, November.
    9. Leif Erec Heimfarth & Oliver Musshoff, 2011. "Weather index‐based insurances for farmers in the North China Plain," Agricultural Finance Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 71(2), pages 218-239, August.
    10. Buchholz, Matthias & Musshoff, Oliver, 2014. "The role of weather derivatives and portfolio effects in agricultural water management," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 146(C), pages 34-44.
    11. Musshoff, Oliver & Hirschauer, Norbert, 2008. "Hedging von Mengenrisiken in der Landwirtschaft – Wie teuer dürfen „ineffektive“ Wetterderivate sein?," German Journal of Agricultural Economics, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Department for Agricultural Economics, vol. 57(05), pages 1-12.
    12. Zhiwei Shen & Martin Odening, 2013. "Coping with systemic risk in index-based crop insurance," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 44(1), pages 1-13, January.
    13. Wei Xu & Guenther Filler & Martin Odening & Ostap Okhrin, 2010. "On the systemic nature of weather risk," Agricultural Finance Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 70(2), pages 267-284, August.
    14. Kellner, Ulla & Musshoff, Oliver, 2011. "Precipitation or water capacity indices? An analysis of the benefits of alternative underlyings for index insurance," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 104(8), pages 645-653, October.
    15. Xu, Wei & Odening, Martin & Musshoff, Oliver, 2008. "Optimal Design of Weather Bonds," 2008 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, Florida 6781, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    16. Wolfgang Karl Härdle & Brenda López Cabrera, 2012. "The Implied Market Price of Weather Risk," Applied Mathematical Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(1), pages 59-95, February.
    17. M. Ritter & O. Mußhoff & M. Odening, 2014. "Minimizing Geographical Basis Risk of Weather Derivatives Using A Multi-Site Rainfall Model," Computational Economics, Springer;Society for Computational Economics, vol. 44(1), pages 67-86, June.
    18. Pelka, Niels & Weber, Ron & Musshoff, Oliver, 2015. "Does weather matter? How rainfall shocks affect credit risk in agricultural micro-finance," 2015 Conference, August 9-14, 2015, Milan, Italy 212617, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    19. van Kooten, G Cornelis & Guo, Changhao & Sun, Baojing, 2015. "Risking-sharing Efficiency of Hedging Strategies," 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California 205756, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    20. Zhang, Li, 2008. "Three essays on agricultural risk and insurance," ISU General Staff Papers 2008010108000016857, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; International Development; Risk and Uncertainty;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:aaea09:49362. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aaeaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.