Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 74 Issue 2

A credibility-based Erlang mixture model for pricing crop reinsurance

Lysa Porth, Wenjun Zhu, Ken Seng Tan

The purpose of this paper is to address some of the fundamental issues surrounding crop insurance ratemaking, from the perspective of the reinsurer, through the development of a…

Challenges of insuring weather risk in agriculture

Martin Odening, Zhiwei Shen

– The purpose of this paper is to review some challenges of insuring weather risk in agriculture and to discuss potential remedies for these problems.

Multiple-peril crop insurance: successes and challenges

Barry Barnett

The purpose of this paper is to examine international experience with multiple-peril crop insurance (MPCI). Named peril crop insurance is available in most countries but MPCI is…

Determining the effectiveness of optimal time-varying hedge ratios for cattle feeders under multiproduct and single commodity settings

Hernan Tejeda, Dillon Feuz

The purpose of this paper is to determine and contrast the risk mitigating effectiveness from optimal multiproduct time-varying hedge ratios, applied to the margin of a cattle…

Protecting financial investment: agriculture insurance in Ghana

Jacob Nunoo, Bernand Nana Acheampong

The purpose of this paper is to present readers with information on the state of provision of agricultural insurance as a means of protecting financial investment in agricultural…

Risk rationing and the demand for agricultural credit: a comparative investigation of Mexico and China

Leslie J. Verteramo Chiu, Sivalai V. Khantachavana, Calum G. Turvey

– The purpose of this paper is to determine the extent of risk rationing among potential rural borrowers in Mexico and China.

Financial engineering for the farm problem

Calum G. Turvey, Joshua Woodard, Edith Liu

The purpose of this paper is to provide a general discussion of how techniques from financial engineering can be used to investigate the economic costs of farm programs and to aid…

Introduction to the International Agricultural Risk, Finance, and Insurance Conference

Lysa Porth and Ken Seng Tan