Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how experience in insurance contracts may influence participation in the Italian crop insurance market.
Design/methodology/approach
From Italian farm-level data, the author estimates a dynamic discrete choice model of participation to investigate the role of experience. The methodology, coupled with exploratory analysis of the data, allows one to compare the relevance of different sources of experience in the crop insurance decision-making process.
Findings
The author found that experience tends to be a catalyst for insurance participation. Policy implications are discussed, in particular, the author discusses on the importance of bolstering uptake to exploit the advantages of the inertia that emerge from experience, and the importance of initiatives to increase the knowledge of crop insurance instruments.
Originality/value
To the best of the author’s knowledge, the role of experience has been underinvestigated. The analysis has the specific contribution of modeling the potential role of experience (exploited after buying an insurance contract) on uptake in crop insurance programs.
Subject
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous),Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
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