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RISK REDUCTION IN CORN PRODUCTION WITH WEATHER PUT OPTION [PDF]
, 2012 Since the late 1990s scientists have discussed the use of weather derivatives to hedge weather conditioned yield volatility in the agricultural sector. The hedging efficiency is depending on the contract design (Weather-Index, Strike-Level, Tick-Size).
Todor Marković +5 more
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The Dilemmas of Risk-Sensitive Development on a Small Volcanic Island [PDF]
Resources, 2016 In the Small Islands Developing State (SIDS) of St Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean, the most destructive disasters in terms of human casualties have been the multiple eruptions of La Soufrière volcano situated in the north of St Vincent ...
Emily Wilkinson +4 more
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Optimal allocation of limitted resources among discrete risk-reduction options
Artificial Intelligence Research, 2014 This study exposes a critical weakness of the (0-1) knapsack dynamic programming approach, widely used for optimal allocationof resources. The (0-1) knapsack dynamic programming approach could waste resources on insignificant improvements andprevent the more efficient use of the resources to achieve maximum benefit.
Michael Todinov
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EFSA Journal, 2013 Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA was asked to provide urgent scientific and technical assistance on the plant pathogenic bacterium Xylella fastidiosa. X.
European Food Safety Authority
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A Portfolio Approach to Risk Reduction in Discretely Rebalanced Option Hedges [PDF]
Management Science, 1998 This paper analyses the accumulated hedging errors generated by discretely rebalanced option hedges. We show that simple generalizations of the prior research can underestimate the variance of the accumulated hedging errors and that even with daily rebalancing, these accumulated hedging errors can introduce substantial risk in arbitrage strategies ...
António S. Mello, Henrik J. Neuhaus
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Risk reduction in wheat production with weather put option [PDF]
Ratarstvo i povrtarstvo, 2011 In this paper is analysed hedging effectiveness in wheat production in Srem Serbia with rainfall put option. It follows that effect of risk reduction is significant if the field of production is close to the meteorological station and if a high correlation between weather indices and yield is assumed.
Todor Marković, Milenko Jovanović
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Strategy Options for Disaster Risk Reduction Through Institutional Improvements and Enhanced Financial Sustainability: Recommendations [PDF]
, 2005 This presentation was commissioned by the Natural Disaster Network of the Regional Policy Dialogue for the V Hemispheric Meeting celebrated on June 13th and 14th, 2005.
Omar D. Cardona, Allan M. Lavell
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Scientific Opinion on the risks to plant health posed by Phytophthora fragariae Hickman var. fragariae in the EU territory, with the identification and evaluation of risk reduction options [PDF]
EFSA Journal, 2014 The Panel on Plant Health assessed the risk to plant health from Phytophthora fragariae for the European Union and evaluated the current EU legislation and possible risk reduction options.
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH)
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Real Options and Reduction of Basic Risk of Index‐Based Climate Agricultural Insurance
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2020 AbstractThis article is a discussion of the concept of index‐based agricultural insurance and the possible role of real options to reduce the basic risk. Indeed, to address the consequences of variability of weather within climate, experiments based on indexed agricultural insurance have been implemented in recent years.
Éric Le Fur, J. François Outreville
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Reduction of Interim Risk Through Options: An Analysis of Maximum Drawdown
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 Traditional risk measures such as standard deviation and CVaR are properties of the distribution of returns over a specified investment horizon. Because such fixed holding period analysis is relatively easy, and because derivative contracts are fixed-term products, the analysis of derivative strategies is normally conducted for a fixed horizon ...
Anthony Seymour +2 more
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