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A market for weather risk ? Worlds in conflict and compromising. [PDF]
In this paper we study the development of the market for weather derivatives in Europe. We show that weather derivatives conceived as financial products by their promoters have difficulties finding end-users.
Huault, Isabelle, Rainelli, Hélène
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Tail Dependence among Agricultural Insurance Indices: The Case of Iowa County-Level Rainfalls [PDF]
Index insurance has been promoted as a cost-effective risk management alternative for agricultural producers in developing countries. In this paper, we ask whether spatially separated weather variables commonly used in index insurance design, such as ...
Liu, Pu, Miranda, Mario J.
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Modeling and Hedging Rain Risk [PDF]
In this article we price a precipitation option based on empirical weather data from Germany using different pricing methods, among them Burn Analysis, Index Value Simulation and Daily Simulation.
Musshoff, Oliver +2 more
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National drought insurance for Malawi [PDF]
Malawi has experienced several catastrophic droughts over the past few decades. The impact of these shocks has been far reaching, and the resulting macroeconomic instability has been a major constraint to growth and poverty reduction in Malawi.
Nucifora, Antonio, Syroka, Joanna
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WEATHER DERIVATIVES: MANAGING RISK WITH MARKET-BASED INSTRUMENTS [PDF]
Accurate pricing of weather derivatives is critically dependent upon correct specification of the underlying weather process. We test among six likely alternative processes using maximum likelihood methods and data from the Fresno, CA weather station ...
Manfredo, Mark R. +2 more
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Willingness to Pay for Weather Derivatives by Australian Wheat Farmers [PDF]
A theoretical optimal hedging model is developed to determine potential demand from Australian farmers for a hedging tool to remove the economic consequences of climate related variability in wheat yield.
Byrnes, Joel +2 more
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Weather Derivatives as an Instrument to Hedge Against the Risk of High Energy Cost in Greenhouse Production [PDF]
In many areas agriculture is exposed to weather related risks. Weather derivatives that get more and more in the focus of interest can reduce these risks.
Berg, Ernst +2 more
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HEDGING MAIZE YIELD WITH WEATHER DERIVATIVES [PDF]
This paper examines the feasibility of weather derivatives in the South African agricultural context by evaluating the merit of rainfall options as a yield risk management tool. The paper consists of three distinctive parts.
Geyser, J.M., van de Venter, T.W.G.
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Weather Risk Management in Tourism Industry
Symphonya, 2016 Globalisation, climate change, the global economic crisis, and the increasing political instability have multiplied the risk factors in the tourism industry. Climate change, in particular the variability of weather, hevily affects decision-making in the
Simona Franzoni, Cristian Pelizzari
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Weather Risk and the Viability of Weather Insurance In Western China [PDF]
This paper presents preliminary results on the possible demand for weather insurance in China. Results from 1,564 farm households from Western and Central China between October 2007 and October 2008 suggest that the greater risk for farmers is drought ...
Belltawn, Burgen +2 more
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