TOPPING INFORMAL RISK POOLING WITH INDEXED INSURANCE: A VAR APPLICATION

M'Kiaira Kimathi Miriti

No 20239, 2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: Value at Risk (VaR) is applied to investigate the potential of incentives for member selection in an index insuring mutual group of farmers. Member selection could have far reaching impications of introducing indexed insurance in smallholder economies. Results indicate that there are no incentives for member selection.

Keywords: Risk; and; Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.20239

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