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Weather Risk Management in Energy Sector: The Polish Case
Energies, 2020 The energy sector is perceived as one of the most exposed sectors to the consequences of weather risk both directly (damages of its infrastructure) and indirectly (frictions to the energy supply−demand balance).
Monika Wieczorek-Kosmala
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Basis risk and weather hedging effectiveness [PDF]
Agricultural Finance Review, 2008 Basis risk – the risk that payoffs of a hedging instrument do not correspond to the underlying exposures – is cited as a primary concern for implementing weather data, we investigate several dimensions of weather basis risk in the U.S. corn market. Results suggest that while geographic basis risk can be significant, it should not preclude the use of ...
Joshua D Woodard, Philip Garcia
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Explaining the road accident risk: Weather effects [PDF]
Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2013 This research aims to highlight the link between weather conditions and road accident risk at an aggregate level and on a monthly basis, in order to improve road safety monitoring at a national level. It is based on some case studies carried out in Work Package 7 on "Data analysis and synthesis" of the EU-FP6 project "SafetyNet-Building the European ...
Constantinos Antoniou, George Yannis
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Effectiveness of Weather Derivatives as a Risk Management Tool in Food Retail: The Case of Croatia
International Journal of Financial Studies, 2017 Non-catastrophic weather risk is gaining importance as climate change becomes more pronounced and economic crisis forces companies to strengthen their cost control. Recent literature proposes weather derivatives as flexible weather risk mitigating tools.
Ivana Štulec
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Tail Risk in Weather Derivatives
CommoditiesWeather derivative markets, particularly Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Heating Degree Day (HDD) and Cooling Degree Day (CDD) futures, face challenges from complex temperature dynamics and spatially heterogeneous co-extremes that standard Gaussian ...
Tuoyuan Cheng +2 more
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Weather Risk Management in Agriculture
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2016 The paper focuses on valuation of a weather derivative with payoffs depending on temperature. We use historical data from the weather station in the Slovak town Košice to obtain unique prices of option contracts in an incomplete market.
Martina Bobriková
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Hedging Wind Power Risk Exposure through Weather Derivatives
Energies, 2022 We introduce the industrial portfolio of a wind farm of a hypothetical company and its valuation consistent with the financial market. Next, we propose a static risk management policy originating from hedging against volumetric risk due to drops in wind ...
Giovanni Masala +2 more
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Significant formation of sulfate aerosols contributed by the heterogeneous drivers of dust surface [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2022 The importance of dust heterogeneous oxidation in the removal of atmospheric SO2 and formation of sulfate aerosols is not adequately understood. In this study, the Fe-, Ti-, and Al-bearing components, Na+, Cl−, K+, and Ca2+ of the dust surface, were ...
T. Wang +7 more
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Impact of Weather on Pedestrians’ Slip Risk [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 Pedestrians’ slipping injuries are a very typical problem in the Nordic countries, causing varying degrees of injuries and in the worst case, long sick leaves. There is a clear seasonal variation in the number of slips. Sidewalk slipperiness and the risk of slips is a complex combination of weather, winter maintenance activities, number of walkers, and
Marjo Hippi, Markku Kangas
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Weather derivatives and hedging the weather risks [PDF]
Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika), 2014 The article focuses on weather derivatives with the aim to present the substance of weather derivatives as relatively new financial products and to discuss their advantages and disadvantages when being used as a tool to diminish the loses coming from these suboptimal weather conditions.
Josef TAUŠER, Radek ČAJKA
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