caa a22 4500 388068345 CHVBK 20180307125139.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199912 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700024074 doi S0022050700024074 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700024074 Indexed Pricing: Sugarcane Price Guarantees in Colonial Taiwan, 1930-1940 [Elektronische Daten] In Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period, sugarcane was typically purchased by Japanese-owned sugar mills at prices guaranteed long in advance of delivery. In some places, the future price was indexed to the price of rice in the following year. This study points out that indexing served to insure farmers' real incomes. But as an insurance against an aggregate risk, this arrangement threatened the mill's profits. We investigate why mills nevertheless offered the insurance. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999 Koo Hui-Wen Hui-wen Koo is Professor, Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, 21 Hsu-Chou Road, Taipei 10020, Taiwan. Wang Chun-Chieh Chun-chieh Wang is a graduate student in the Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University, 603 Kern Graduate Building, University Park, PA 16802. The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/4(1999-12), 912-926 0022-0507 59:4<912 1999 59 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700024074 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700024074 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Koo Hui-Wen Hui-wen Koo is Professor, Department of Economics, National Taiwan University, 21 Hsu-Chou Road, Taipei 10020, Taiwan NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wang Chun-Chieh Chun-chieh Wang is a graduate student in the Department of Economics, Pennsylvania State University, 603 Kern Graduate Building, University Park, PA 16802 NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/4(1999-12), 912-926 0022-0507 59:4<912 1999 59 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge