DETERMINATION OF INSURANCE PREMIUMS FOR CHILI PLANTATION USING THE BLACK-SCHOLES MODEL WITH CLAYTON COPULA APPROACH

Abstract

Agriculture is a vulnerable sector to the risk of crop damage due to climate change and other environmental factors. One source of risk in agriculture is rainfall, which significantly affects productivity and farmers’ income. Traditional insurance premium calculations often rely on assumptions of normal distribution and linear dependency, which may not accurately capture the complex and non-linear relationships between climatic and agricultural variables. This research presents a novel contribution to agricultural risk management by applying the Clayton Copula to model the dependency structure between rainfall and chili crop production output in the context of crop insurance pricing. The estimation of Copula parameters was conducted using Maximum Likelihood Estimation, yielding a parameter θ value of -0.1252, which indicates the dependency structure between the variables. The predictive accuracy of the Copula Clayton model was evaluated using the Mean Absolute Error, with a result of 0.01291, demonstrating strong relevance in describing the dependency between precipitation and yield. Furthermore, the research integrates the Copula-based rainfall modeling with the Black-Scholes model for determining insurance premiums. The findings reveal that premium prices depend on rainfall index values, where higher rainfall percentages correspond to higher premium costs.