Weather Derivatives Modeling and Pricing Weather-Related Risk

Weather derivatives are financial instruments that can be used by organizations or individuals as part of a risk management strategy to minimize risk associated with adverse or unexpected weather conditions. Just as traditional contingent claims, a weather derivative has an underlying measure, such...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alexandridis K., Antonis, Zapranis, Achilleas D. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2013, 2013
Edition:1st ed. 2013
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The weather derivatives market
  • Introduction to Stochastic Calculus
  • Handling the data
  • Pricing approaches of temperature
  • Modeling the daily average temperature
  • Pricing temperature derivatives
  • The use of meteorological forecasts
  • The effects of the geographical and basis risk
  • Pricing the power of the wind a.       Introduction to wind derivatives
  • Precipitation Derivatives a.       Introduction
  • Rainfall Derivatives
  • Snow Derivatives
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Index
  • References