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37
Citations
5952
World Ranking
2684
National Ranking
1497

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Jerry R. Skees is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. The professional profile reflects an academic career connected to this institution.

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Best Publications

  • Poverty Traps and Index-Based Risk Transfer Products

    Barry J. Barnett;Christopher B. Barrett;Jerry R. Skees

  • Designing and Rating an Area Yield Crop Insurance Contract

    Jerry R. Skees;J. Roy Black;Barry J. Barnett

  • Rate Making for Farm-Level Crop Insurance: Implications for Adverse Selection

    Jerry R. Skees;Michael R. Reed

  • New Approaches to Crop Yield Insurance in Developing Countries

    Jerry R. Skees;Peter B.R. Hazell;Mario J. Miranda

  • Conceptual and Practical Considerations for Sharing Catastrophic/Systemic Risks

    Jerry R. Skees;Jerry R. Skees;Barry J. Barnett

  • Weather Index Insurance and Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges in Lower Income Countries

    Benjamin Collier;Jerry Skees;Barry Barnett

  • Developing Rainfall-Based Index Insurance in Morocco

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  • Poverty traps and climate risk: limitations and opportunities of index-based risk financing

    Christopher B. Barrett;B.J. Barnett;S. Carter;S. Chantarat

  • Innovations in Index Insurance for the Poor in Lower Income Countries

    Jerry R. Skees

  • Dzuds, droughts, and livestock mortality in Mongolia

    Mukund Palat Rao;Mukund Palat Rao;Nicole K. Davi;Nicole K. Davi;Rosanne Dorothy D'Arrigo;Jerry Skees

  • Managing agricultural risk at the country level : the case of index-based livestock insurance in Mongolia

    Olivier Mahul;Jerry Skees

  • CONTINGENT VALUATION IN FOOD POLICY ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY OF A PESTICIDE-RESIDUE RISK REDUCTION

    Jean C. Buzby;Richard C. Ready;Jerry R. Skees

  • Income Insurance in European Agriculture

    Miranda P. M. Meuwissen;Ruud B. M. Huirne;Jerry R. Skees

  • Can Financial Markets be Tapped to Help Poor People Cope with Weather Risks

    Jerry Skees;Panos Varangis;Donald Larson;Paul Siegel

  • Sacred Cows And Hot Potatoes: Agrarian Myths And Agricultural Policy

    William P. Browne;Jerry R Skees;Louis E Swanson;Paul Thompson

  • Enhancing microfinance using index‐based risk‐transfer products

    Jerry R. Skees;Barry J. Barnett

  • Challenges for use of index‐based weather insurance in lower income countries

    Jerry R. Skees

  • Is Area Yield Insurance Competitive with Farm Yield Insurance

    Barry J. Barnett;J. Roy Black;Yingyao Hu;Jerry R. Skees

  • Consumers Want Reduced Exposure to Pesticides on Food

    Jean C. Buzby;Jerry R. Skees

  • A role for capital markets in natural disasters: a piece of the food security puzzle.

    Jerry R Skees

  • Using Index-Based Risk Transfer Products to Facilitate Micro Lending in Peru and Vietnam

    Jerry R. Skees;Jason Hartell;Anne G. Murphy

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean C. Buzby
Jean C. Buzby United States Department of Agriculture
Christopher B. Barrett
Christopher B. Barrett Cornell University
Calum G. Turvey
Calum G. Turvey Cornell University
Ruud B.M. Huirne
Ruud B.M. Huirne Wageningen University & Research
James Hansen
James Hansen Columbia University
Upmanu Lall
Upmanu Lall Columbia University
Nicole Davi
Nicole Davi Columbia University
Shih-Yu Wang
Shih-Yu Wang Utah State University
Rosanne D'Arrigo
Rosanne D'Arrigo Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Michael R. Carter
Michael R. Carter University of California, Davis

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