Behavioral Economic Insights on Index Insurance Design

Michael Carter, Ghada Elabed and Elena Serfilippi

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Abstract: While behavioral economic experiments have uncovered a wealth of insights concerning how people decide in the face of risk and uncertainty, the implications of these insights for the demand for agricultural insurance are under-explored.

Keywords: Ambiguity aversion; Discontinuous preferences; Index insurance; Risk and uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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