This paper deals with the following question associated with congestion pricing in a general network with either fixed or elastic travel demand: what is the maximum efficiency loss of a general second-best pricing scheme due to inexact marginal-cost pricing in comparison with the first-best...

The supply of affordable crop insurance is hampered by the existence of systemic weather risk which results in large risk premiums. In this article, we assess the systemic nature of weather risk for 17 agricultural production regions in China and explore the possibility of spatial...

Consider a class of variational inequality problems of finding $${x^*\in S}$$ , such that $$f(x^*)^\top (z-x^*)\geq 0,\quad \forall z\in S,$$ where the underlying mapping f is hard to evaluate (sometimes its explicit form is unknown), and S has the following structure $$S=\{x\in R^n\; | \; Ax\le...

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Systemic weather risk is a major obstacle for the formation of private (nonsubsidized) crop insurance. This paper explores the possibility of spatial diversification of insurance by estimating the joint occurrence of unfavorable weather conditions in different locations. For that purpose copula...