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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to understand which factors affect crop insurance decision in
France and in Italy. These neighbor countries are characterized by a changing
insurance system from a public fund to private policies which are highly subsidized.
Despite the stakes related to crop insurance - CAP reform, size of the market,
implication of the governments -, few studies have been drawn on this topic. The
literature in finance and in agricultural economics allows to build a two-stage
empirical model which computes the elasticities of demand for crop insurance, and to
define its key determinants. It appears that France and Italy present similar insurance
systems in terms of products and of ability to indemnify. However, the farmers'
sensitivity to insurance is most contrasted across the Alps. This leads to a discussion
about the creation of an insurance market at the European scale.