Utility, risk and demand for incomplete insurance: Lab experiments with guatemalan co-operatives

We play a series of incentivised laboratory games with risk-exposed co-operativised Guatemalan coffee farmers to understand the demand for index-based rainfall insurance. We estimate an explicit utility curve for every player and hence predict expected utility demand under counterfactual scenarios....

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Main Authors: McIntosh, C. (Author), Povel, F. (Author), Sadoulet, E. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2019
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