Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 78 Issue 2

Prospects for agricultural insurance in Europe

Miranda P.M. Meuwissen, Yann de Mey, Marcel van Asseldonk

Imperfect information and participation in insurance markets: evidence from Italy

Fabio Gaetano Santeramo

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how experience in insurance contracts may influence participation in the Italian crop insurance market.

Assessing the risk profile of dairy farms: application of the Income Stabilisation Tool in Italy

Samuele Trestini, Serena Szathvary, Eugenio Pomarici, Vasco Boatto

This paper bridges the gap between theory and practice in the application of the Income Stabilisation Tool (IST). With an application to the dairy sector, the purpose of this…

Factors differentiating the level of crop insurance at Polish farms

Adam Wąs, Pawel Kobus

The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors that determine demand for crop insurance in Poland.

Insurance prospects after the European dairy quota abolition

Hinrich Schulte, Oliver Musshoff

The expected increase in milk price volatility after the milk quota abolition in the EU will lead to further planning uncertainty on dairy farms. Consequently, the modest supply…

Addressing basis risk in agricultural margin insurances: The case of wheat production in Austria

Thomas Url, Franz Sinabell, Karin Heinschink

After several reforms of the common agricultural policy, domestic product prices and farm incomes have become more volatile in the EU. Risk-averse farmers are therefore seeking…

Explaining weather-related credit risk with evapotranspiration and precipitation indices

Freya von Negenborn, Ron Weber, Oliver Musshoff

Although the microfinance sector in developing countries has seen an impressive development in recent years, many small-scale farmers in rural areas are still undersupplied with…

Does subsidized MPCI crowds out traditional market-based hail insurance in the Netherlands?

Marcel van Asseldonk, Harold van der Meulen, Ruud van der Meer, Huib Silvis, Petra Berkhout

The purpose of this paper is to determine which factors influence the choice to adopt subsidized multi-peril crop insurance (MPCI) in the Netherlands and whether prior hail…

Farmers’ responses to the changes in Hungarian agricultural insurance system

Anna Zubor-Nemes, József Fogarasi, András Molnár, Gábor Kemény

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of crop insurance among Hungarian crop farmers and the responses to the introduction of the two-scheme risk management system…