Pro-poor risk management: essays on the economics of index-based risk transfer products
This dissertation explores innovations in index-based risk transfer products (IBRTPs) as a means to address an important isurance market failure that leaves many poor and vulnerable populations exposed to onsiderable uninsured risk. IBRTPs can address problems of covariate risk, asymmetric informa...
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| Format: | Tesis |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cornell University
2009
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/893 |
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