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How Australian Farmers Deal with Risk
submitted by oyb119 29 minutes ago - Topic: Agriculture
In Australia broadacre crops can be insured against hail and fire damage and some other perils but not against losses caused by drought, flood or frost. In this paper the private provision of crop insurance is investigated in Western Australia. - A farm survey was conducted with the cooperation o...



Hedging effectiveness of weather derivatives in arable farming - Is there a need for mixed indices?
submitted by oyb119 29 minutes ago - Topic: Agriculture
The use of weather derivatives is impaired with a basis risk which diminishes the hedging effectiveness and hinders the distribution of these risk management instruments in the agricultural sector. A frequently suggested approach to reduce the basis risk is the use of mixed indices composed of se...

Risk-efficient portfolio crop choice with amended water and irrigation policies in northern Germany
submitted by oyb119 29 minutes ago - Topic: Agriculture
Increasing environmental concerns have placed the need for an enhanced water resources management on the policy agenda. In this context, a restrictive regulation of water withdrawals for irrigation has gained in importance. This paper investigates how a reduction in water quotas and increased wat...

Policy Rationing in Rural Credit Markets
submitted by oyb119 29 minutes ago - Topic: Agriculture
This paper presents a discussion on the idea of "Policy Rationing". Policy rationing refers to constraining impacts on farm credit through policy action or inaction. To present the ideas I discuss ten themes in policy rationing ranging from macro-finance policies to smart lending and financial in...

Livestock Mortality Insurance: Development and Challenges
submitted by oyb119 29 minutes ago - Topic: Agriculture
The purpose of this research is examine the development of livestock mortality insurance, and associated challenges, in order to provide an improved understanding regarding the operation of livestock mortality insurance. - In a many countries, livestock mortality insurance has been either unavail...



Agricultural Risks and Risk Management in the Current Context of Chinese Economy
submitted by oyb119 29 minutes ago - Topic: Agriculture
The purpose of this paper is to provide a big picture of the current context of Chinese economy, the government policies on agriculture, and the role of agricultural risks and risk management against this background. - The new Chinese economic challenges are laid out upfront. Relevant agricultura...

Can flexible microfinance loans improve credit access for farmers?
submitted by oyb119 29 minutes ago - Topic: Agriculture
Using a unique dataset of a commercial microfinance institution (MFI) in Madagascar, this paper investigates how credit access probabilities and loan volume rationing magnitudes for farmers change if the MFI switches to offer flexible microfinance loans, which can account for agricultural product...

Evaluating grain producers’ production financing alternatives: Evidence from South Africa
submitted by oyb119 29 minutes ago - Topic: Agriculture
The paper aims to identify, present and compare agricultural production financing alternatives available to grain producers in South Africa. From the South African perspective, agricultural land cannot always be utilised as collateral and therefore alternative financing has developed. - The study...

Derivatives as Risk Management and Performance of Agricultural Banks
submitted by oyb119 29 minutes ago - Topic: Agriculture
The purpose of this research is to estimate the impact of financial derivatives on profitability in agricultural banks. Agricultural banks are new to the derivatives market and are unlikely to use financial derivatives for risk speculation. Thus, we also provide evidence on the effectiveness of f...

Optimal Reinsurance Analysis from a Crop Insurer's Perspective
submitted by oyb119 29 minutes ago - Topic: Agriculture
The primary objective of this paper is to analyze the optimal reinsurance contract structure from the crop insurer's perspective. - A very powerful and flexible empirical-based reinsurance model is used to analyze the optimal form of the reinsurance treaty. The reinsurance model is calibrated to ...

A right hemisphere safety backup at work: Hypotheses for deep hypnosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, and dissociation identity disorder
submitted by liathilean 30 minutes ago - Topic: Health
Theory points to an a priori relation between six key problems of living, to which people have adapted through evolution. Children are guided through the problems one by one, learning to switch between them automatically and unawares. The first problem of raising hope of certainty (about the envi...

Clinically important variants of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma
submitted by vejoykamor 32 minutes ago - Topic: Health
It has become clear that diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is not a uniform antibody. Several recognizable variants have clinically distinct features and, frequently, require specific treatment approaches. Recognition of these variants and utilization of the appropriate treatments will improve the ou...

Allogeneic stem cell transplantation for diffuse large B cell lymphoma: Defining the role of allografts
submitted by vejoykamor 32 minutes ago - Topic: Health
Allogeneic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) remains an option for patients who have disease progression post-autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) or who would not be eligible to ASCT for relapsed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. Data with myeloablative or non-myeloablative allo-SCT demon...

Evaluation of Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis by Pediatric Emergency Physician Sonography
submitted by apsengh 33 minutes ago - Topic: Health
The objective was to evaluate the accuracy of pediatric emergency physician (EP) sonography for infants with suspected hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS). This was a prospective observational pilot study in an urban academic pediatric emergency department (PED). Patients were selected if the tre...

The Diagnostic Value of Serum Ischemia-modified Albumin Levels in Experimentally Induced Carbon Monoxide Poisoning and Their Correlation With Poisoning Severity
submitted by apsengh 33 minutes ago - Topic: Health
The objectives were to determine the diagnostic value of blood ischemia-modified albumin (IMA) levels in experimentally induced carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning and to analyze their correlation with poisoning severity. Thirty-six female rats were randomly assigned to one of three groups: I (control...