PARAMETRIC CROP INSURANCE AGAINST FLOODS: THE CASE OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

Abstract

The importance of risk man-agement in agriculture is unquestionable. Farmers in Bosnia and Herzegovina face weather, product, and price and market risk. Index-based insurance products for agriculture present alternatives for man-aging weather risk. They differ from clas-sical insurance products in that they do not remunerate actual loss and to purchase a weather index insurance policy the insured does not actually have to have an insurable interest. In this research, two flood para-metric insurance products are presented, one with fixed compensation and the other with compensation proportional to flood intensity.