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Statistical Analysis of Rainfall Insurance Payouts in Southern India
Xavier Giné 1 , Robert Townsend 1 , and James Vickery 1
  1 Dr. Xavier Giné (World Bank, DECRG), Prof. Robert Townsend (University of Chicago), Dr. James Vickery (Federal Reserve Bank of New York).

We acknowledge the financial support of the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, SECO, CRMG and the Global Association of Risk Professionals, GARP. We thank representatives from ICICI Lombard for their assistance, and Zhenyu Wang for comments. Paola de Baldomero Zazo and Sarita Subramanian provided outstanding research assistance. Views expressed in this paper are the authors' and should not be attributed to the World Bank, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or the Federal Reserve System. Email: xgine@worldbank.org, rtownsen@uchicago.edu, and james.vickery@ny.frb.org.

This article was presented in a principal paper session at the AAEA annual meeting (Portland, OR, July 2007). The articles in these sessions are not subjected to the journal's standard refereeing process.

Copyright 2007 American Agricultural Economics Association

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