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Jerry R. Skees
Researcher at University of Kentucky
Publications - 114
Citations - 4292
Jerry R. Skees is an academic researcher from University of Kentucky. The author has contributed to research in topics: Crop insurance & Risk management. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 114 publications receiving 4096 citations. Previous affiliations of Jerry R. Skees include Mississippi State University.
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Poverty Traps and Index Based Risk Transfer Products
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review relevant threads of the poverty traps literature to motivate a description of the opportunities presented by innovative index-based risk transfer products for low-income countries.
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Poverty Traps and Index-Based Risk Transfer Products
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review relevant threads of the poverty traps literature to motivate a description of the opportunities presented by innovative index-based risk transfer products for low-income countries.
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Designing and Rating an Area Yield Crop Insurance Contract
TL;DR: The Group Risk Plan (GRP) as discussed by the authors is a new federal crop insurance product that insures based on area yield, which was developed by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC).
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New Approaches to Crop Yield Insurance in Developing Countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore government intervention in agricultural risk markets and discuss new approaches to risk sharing with limited government involvement, and build the case for introducing negotiable state-contingent contracts settled on area crop yield estimates or locally appropriate weather indices.
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Rate Making for Farm-Level Crop Insurance: Implications for Adverse Selection
Jerry R. Skees,Michael R. Reed +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify two problems in the new Federal Crop Insurance that may cause adverse selection: (a) the relationship between rate making and expected yields for individual farmers, and (b) the bias introduced in coverage protection when trends are not used to establish expected yields.