Index Insurance for Developing Countries

By Mario J. Miranda, Katie Farrin. 2012

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After the Drought: The Impact of Microinsurance on Consumption Smoothing and Asset Protection (2013, unknown): “Barnett, Barrett, and Skees (2008), Dercon et al. (2008), Miranda and Farrin (2012), Cole et al. (2012) and Jensen and Barrett (2016) provide summaries of the literature.”
Food and Earth Systems: Priorities for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation for Agriculture and Food Systems (2019, background): ““Basis risk”—farmers experiencing losses when a payout is not triggered or receiving a payout when losses are not experienced—is a particular challenge to adoption of index-based insurance [60,61].”
How Basis Risk and Spatiotemporal Adverse Selection Influence Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya (2014, background): “…addressing various aspects of theoretical and applied concerns related to the design, implementation, and assessment of index insurance products (Barnett & Mahul 2007; Barrett et al. 2007; Binswanger-Mkhize 2012; Chantarat et al. 2007; Clarke 2016; Jensen & Barrett 2017; Miranda & Farrin 2012).”