Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent to which weather index‐based insurances can contribute to reducing shortfall risks of revenues of a representative average farm that produces corn or wheat in the North China Plain (NCP). The geographical basis risk is quantified...

Purpose – Since the 1990s, there has been a discussion about the use of weather index‐based insurance, also called weather derivatives, as a new instrument to hedge against volumetric risks in agriculture. It particularly differs from other insurance schemes by pay‐offs being related to...

Purpose In order to improve the assessment of current lending policies for a microfinance institution (MFI) in Azerbaijan, the purpose of this paper is to analyse how lending conditions are adjusted based on knowledge gains during the loan relationship, with particular attention to delays in...

Purpose – Since the 1990s, there has been a discussion about the use of weather index-based insurance, also called weather derivatives, as a new instrument to hedge against volumetric risks in agriculture. It particularly differs from other insurance schemes by pay-offs being related to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent to which weather index-based insurances can contribute to reducing shortfall risks of revenues of a representative average farm that produces corn or wheat in the North China Plain (NCP). The geographical basis risk is quantified to...

Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre werden „Wetterderivate“ als neues Instrument zum Management etterbedingter Mengenrisiken diskutiert. Im Gegensatz zu schadensbezogenen Versicherungen erfolgt der Hedge bei Wetterderivaten durch an Wetterindizes (Nieder-schlagssummen, Temperatursummen etc.)...

Die Bedeutung des Wetters als Risikofaktor in der Landwirtschaft ist seit langem bekannt. Zur Reduzierung wetterbedingter Risiken wurden in den letzten Jahren insbesondere Ertragsausfallversicherungen diskutiert. Ein relativ neues Instrument zur Steuerung des Mengenrisikos stellen sog....