An application of geographically weighted quantile LASSO to weather index insurance design
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Agricultural Finance; Risk and Uncertainty; Research Methods/Statistical Methods;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2020-09-21 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2020-09-21 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-IAS-2020-09-21 (Insurance Economics)
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