Utilization Copula in Determination of Shallot Insurance Premium Based on Regional Harvest Results

Abstra ct: Shallot is one of the highest-yielding horticultural crops in Indonesia and has the tendency to increase the profits of farmers in Indonesia. But until now in Indonesia there is no insurance for horticultural crops other than corn, whereas the shallot farmers face various sources of risk such as weather changes, pest attacks, or other technical factors that ultimately lead to uncertainty of agricultural yields (revenue risk). To overcome this loss, insurance companies can make products based on shallot yields and shallot market prices. Therefore it is essential to grasp the distribution of risk variables (shallot yields and shallot market prices) that interact simultaneously, not separate from one another. Omitting dependencies among risk variables can cause biased risk estimation. Copula can model the non-linear dependencies and can identify the structure of the dependencies between variables. The suitable copula for modeling yield and price risk of shallot is simulated to compute the premium. Result show that clayton copula is suitable for dependence modelling between risk variables.