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Papers and Presentations

Title	Author	Date
State of Knowledge Report — Market Development for Weather Index Insurance: Key Considerations for Sustainability and Scale Up	Murphy, Barnett, Nikolova, Hartell, Skees	2011
New Approaches to Designing Index Insurance — Insuring against Consequential Losses	Nikolova, Barnett, Skees, Hartell, Carpenter	2011
Prefeasibility — Earthquake Risk and Index-based Insurance for Indonesia	Hartell, McFadyen, and Skees	2011
Rethinking the Role of Index Insurance — Accessing Markets for the Poor	Skees	2010
State of Knowledge Report — Data Requirements for the Design of Weather Index Insurance	Collier, Barnett, and Skees	2010
Using El Niño Insurance to Mitigate Losses of an Exporting Firm, Department of Agricultural Economics Seminar Presentation, University of Kentucky	Skees	2010
Ex Ante Financing for Disaster Risk Management and Adaptation: A Public Policy Perspective	Skees	2009
Risk Assessment, Reinsurance, and Financial Performance	Skees	2009
Designing Agricultural Index Insurance in Developing Countries: A GlobalAgRisk Market Development Model Handbook for Policy and Decision Makers	Skees, Hartell, Murphy, and Collier	2009
Emerging Lessons from Innovation in Catastrophic Weather Insurance to Improve the Livelihoods of Rural Households	Skees	2009
The Potential for, and Uses of, Weather Index Insurance	Skees	2009
Weather Index Insurance and Climate Change — Opportunities and Challenges in Lower Income Countries	Collier, Skees, and Barnett	2009
The Potential and Limitations of Index-based Weather Insurance: Mali and Peru	Skees	2009
Legal and Regulatory Framework to Facilitate Agricultural Insurance: Part 2 — Perspectives for Policy	Carpenter	2009
Legal and Regulatory Framework to Facilitate Agricultural Insurance: Part 1 — Application to Dong Thap Project	Carpenter	2009
Dong Thap Flood Insurance: An Application of Risk Assessment and Product Development	Hartell	2009
A Policy Vision for Developing Agricultural Insurance in Vietnam	Skees	2009
Prefeasibility Analysis: Index-based Weather Insurance in Mali	Hartell and Skees	2009
ENSO Business Interruption Index Insurance (EBIII)	Skees	2009
ENSO Business Interruption Index Insurance (EBIII) for Catastrophic Flooding in Piura, Peru	Skees and Murphy	2009
Using NGOs to Advance Microinsurance for Weather Risks among the Rural Poor	Murphy	2008
The Potential of Weather Index Insurance for Spurring a Green Revolution in Africa	Skees and Collier	2008
Creating Insurance Markets for Natural Disaster Risk in Lower Income Countries: The Potential Role for Securitization	Skees, Barnett, and Murphy	2008
Innovations in Index Insurance for the Poor in Lower Income Countries	Skees	2008
Poverty Traps and Index-based Risk Transfer Products	Barnett, Barrett, and Skees	2008
Using Irrigation Insurance to Improve Water Usage in the Rio Mayo System of Northwest Mexico	Leiva and Skees	2008
Scaling up Index Insurance: What Is Needed for the Next Big Leap Forward?	Skees, Murphy, Collier, and Roth	2007
Challenges for Use of Index-based Weather Insurance in Lower Income Countries	Skees	2007
Using Index-based Risk Transfer Products to Facilitate Micro Lending in Peru and Vietnam	Skees, Hartell, and Murphy	2007
El Niño Southern Oscillation–based Index Insurance for Floods: Statistical Risk Analyses and Application to Peru	Khalil, Kwon, Lall, Miranda, and Skees	2007
China: Innovations in Agricultural Insurance Promoting Access to Agricultural Insurance for Small Farmers	Belete and Mahul, eds.	2007
Primer: Index Insurance for Weather Risk in Low Income Countries	Skees, Goes, Sullivan, Carpenter, Miranda, Barnett	2006
Piloting Index-based Livestock Insurance in Mongolia	Mahul and Skees	2006
Enhancing Microfinance Using Index-based Risk Transfer Products	Skees and Barnett	2006
Can Financial Markets Be Tapped to Help Poor People?	Skees, Varangis, Larson, and Siegel	2005
Innovations in Government Responses to Catastrophic Risk Sharing for Agriculture in Developing Countries	Skees, Barnett, and Hartell	2005
Insuring Against Bad Weather—Recent Thinking	Hazell and Skees	2005
Managing Agricultural Production Risk: Innovations in Developing Countries	Hess, Skees, Stoppa, Barnett, and Nash	2005
Managing Agricultural Risk at the Country Level: The Case of Index-based Livestock Insurance in Mongolia	Mahul and Skees	2005
Index-based Livestock Insurance in Mongolia: Potential Impact on Financial Sector Development	Goes	2005
Risk Management Challenges in Rural Financial Markets: Blending Risk Management Innovations with Rural Finance	Skees	2003
Financing Natural Disaster Risk Using Charity Contributions and Ex Ante Index Insurance	Goes and Skees	2003
Evaluating India's Crop Failure Policy: Focus on the Indian Crop Insurance Program	Skees and Hess	2003
Examining the Feasibility of of Livestock Insurance in Mongolia	Skees and Enkh-Amgalan	2002
Financing Catastrophe Risk for Famine Relief Using Early Warning Systems	Skees	2002
The Bad Harvest	Skees	2001
A Rural Community Safety Net	Zeuli and Skees	2001
A Role for Capital Markets in Natural Disasters: A Piece of the Food Security Puzzle	Skees	2000
The Potential Influence of Risk Management Programs on Cropping Decisions	Skees	2000
Agricultural Risk Management or Income Enhancement?	Skees	1999
Conceptual and Practical Considerations for Sharing Catastrophic/Systemic Risks	Skees and Barnett	1999
Designing and Rating an Area-Yield Crop Insurance Contract	Skees, Black, and Barnett	1997
Weather Information and the Potential for Intertemporal Adverse Selection in Crop Insurance	Luo, Skees, Marchant	1994

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