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- Publications
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Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture and Rural Areas in Lower-Income Countries
- B. Barnett, O. Mahul
- Geography
- 1 December 2007
Government Support to Agricultural Insurance: Challenges and Options for Developing Countries
- O. Mahul, Charles Stutley
- Economics
- 8 March 2010
Governments in developing countries have been increasingly involved in the support of commercial agricultural (crop and livestock) insurance programs in recent years. A striking example is China,… Expand
Weather Based Crop Insurance in India
- Daniel Jonathan Clarke, D. Clarke, O. Mahul, K. N. Rao, Niraj Verma
- Business
- 1 March 2012
The weather index insurance market in India is the world's largest, having transitioned from small-scale and scattered pilots to a large-scale weather based crop insurance program covering more than… Expand
Catastrophe Risk Financing in Developing Countries: Principles for Public Intervention
- J. Cummins, O. Mahul
- Economics
- 15 October 2008
Public intervention in catastrophe insurance markets, supported by the donor community and the World Bank, should be country specific. Low-income countries, where the domestic non-life insurance… Expand
Catastrophe Risk Pricing: An Empirical Analysis
The price of catastrophe risks is viewed by many to be too high and/or too volatile. Catastrophe risk practitioners point out that, contrary to standard insurance, such as automobile insurance,… Expand
The Demand for Insurance With an Upper Limit on Coverage
- J. Cummins, O. Mahul
- Economics
- 6 July 2004
The demand for insurance is examined when the indemnity schedule is subject to an upper limit. The optimal contract is shown to display full insurance above a deductible up to the cap. Some results… Expand
Building Resilience: Integrating climate and disaster risk into development - Lessons from World Bank Group experience
- H. Gitay, Sofia U. Bettencourt, +39 authors D. Wielinga
- Environmental Science
- 2013
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Optimal Insurance Against Climatic Experience
- O. Mahul
- Economics, Political Science
- 1 August 2001
An optimal insurance contract against a climatic risk is derived in the presence of an uninsurable and dependent aggregate production risk. The optimaldesign depends on the stochastic dependency… Expand
Optimum Area Yield Crop Insurance
- O. Mahul
- Economics
- 1 February 1999
This article considers the problem of the optimal design of crop insurance when the indemnity is based upon the aggregate yield of a surrounding area. The optimal area yield crop insurance contract… Expand
Risk Modeling Concepts Relating to the Design and Rating of Agricultural Insurance Contracts
- B. Goodwin, O. Mahul
- Business
- 1 August 2004
The authors identify the key issues and concerns that arise in the design and rating of crop yield insurance plans, with a particular emphasis on production risk modeling. The authors show how the… Expand