Italian subsidised crop insurance: What the role of policy changes

Abstract Risk management in agriculture is crucial and policymakers are implementing policy reforms to foster farmers’ adoption of ex-ante risk tools such as crop insurance: Their effectiveness the core evaluation exercises. The Italian subsidised insurance market has been interested by major 2013 2015. reform removed subsidies mono-risk contracts, whereas 2015 replaced multi- pluri-risks contract schemes with packages, devoted providing coverage over different sets adversities, thus altering framework that used for several years. We show first contributed drop quantity purchased, latter increased quality purchased.