Contributions to the Economics of Index Based Insurance Schemes

• Main Author: Rödl, Matthias (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Management, Organisation und ökonomische Analyse,
• Subjects: Insurance.

Index based insurance schemes can play a vital role in insuring poor people in developing countries against a multitude of risk. However, the concept doesn't go along without any obstacles. Matthias Rödl provides a theoretical framework of index based insurance schemes and further highlights w...

Table of Contents:

• Demand and Supply
• Self-Insurance
• Moral Hazard and Group Sample Observation.