This I4 technical meeting in Rome, Italy brought together researchers and stakeholders of the Index Insurance Innovation Initiative at UC Davis.

• Meeting Agenda

Presentations:

• Interlinking weather index insurance with credit to alleviate market failures and improve agricultural productivity in rural Ethiopia
  Alexandros Sarris, University of Athens
• Index‐based weather insurance for coffee cooperatives in Guatemala
  Elisabeth Sadoulet, University of California, Berkeley
• The R4 Rural Risk Resilience Initiative
  Richard Chourlaton, World Food Programme
• Agricultural Insurance Projects of the ILO Microinsurance Innovation facility
  Pranav Prashad, International Labor Organization
• Lessons Learned: structuring and pricing index-based insurance in developing countries
  Marcel Kuettel, Swiss Re
• Will I be paid after a loss? Comparing index insurance with individual insurance in Ecudador
  María José Castillo, ESPOL
• Strengthening informal Ethiopan risk-sharping groups through index insurance
  Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse (IFPRI)
• Calibrating rainfall-based index insurance contracts
  René Gommes, Food and Agriculture Organization
• Adapting satellite contracts for spatial scale-up in Northern Kenya
  Christopher Barrett, Cornell University
  Michael Carter, University of California, Davis
• Satellite-based crop yield prediction in Tanzania and Mali
  Michael Carter, University of California, Davis
• Behavioral economic perspectives on index insurance contract design- insights from cumulative prospect theory
  Catherine Guirkinger & Wouter Gelade, University of Namur, Belgium
• Ambiguity aversion and the willingness to pay to avoid the “ambiguity” of index insurance: a field of experiment in Mali
  Ghada Elabed, University of California, Davis
• Behavioral experiments on preferred contract design with Peruvian cotton farmers
  Steve Boucher, University of California, Davis
• Econometric Analysis of demand for ILBI in the Northern Kenya Pilot
  Christopher Barrett, Cornell University
• Valuing asset insurance in the presence of poverty traps
  Michael Carter, University of California, Davis
• Selling formal insurance to the informally insured
  Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University
• Subsidies and weather insurance uptake in the short and long run: evidence from China
  Alain de Janvry, University of California, Berkeley