Seasonal Climate Forecasts and Agricultural Risk Management: Implications for Insurance Design
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Keywords
Agricultural risk; Index insurance; Insurance; Seasonal climate forecast;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- Q1 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture
- G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies
- Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2016-05-28 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2016-05-28 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-IAS-2016-05-28 (Insurance Economics)
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