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http://dx.doi.org/10.11625/KJOA.2016.24.3.369

Analysis of Farm Revenue Stabilization and Social Welfare Effects of Crop Yield Insurance  

Kang, Su-Jin (부산대학교 농업경제학과)
Chung, Won-Ho (부산대학교 농업경제학과)
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Korean Journal of Organic Agriculture / v.24, no.3, 2016 , pp. 369-383 More about this Journal
Abstract
Crop yield insurance program in Korea has rapidly grown not only in quantity but in quality for 15 years since it was introduced in 2001. Despite growth of Crop insurance, performance evaluation for crop yield insurance has not fully been evaluated at the farm, consumer and national level. The purpose of this study is to conduct the performance evaluation for crop yield insurance through estimating the effects of farm revenue stabilization and social welfare increase with three popular insurance items: apple, pear and sweet persimmon. Based on the analysis of social welfare effect, cost-benefit analysis of operating crop yield insurance was conducted at the national level. We found that crop yield insurance stabilizes farm revenue based on the estimated four risk indicators: Coefficient of Variation, Value at Risk, Certainty Equivalence, and Risk Premium. The result of cost-benefit analysis shows that crop yield insurance increases social net benefit by 44.1 billion won for the three items. As a result, crop yield insurance program has contributed remarkably on social welfare as well as farm management and its role will be more important in the future.
Keywords
crop yield insurance; farm revenue stabilization; social welfare;
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