Bokusheva, Raushan; Breustedt, Gunnar; Heidelbach, Olaf - 2007
The study introduces an ex-ante evaluation concept into the analysis of weather-based index insurance effectiveness. We … insurance schemes risk reduction. In addition to weather-based index insurance, we consider two area-yield insurance products … reduction substantially for most index insurance schemes. Farm yield insurance seems to be robust tothe choice of the empirical …