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 --...

Under the Basel II regulatory framework non-negligible statistical problems arise when backtesting risk measures. In this setting backtests often become infeasible due to a low number of violations leading to heavy size distortions. According to Escanciano and Olmo (2010, 2011) these problems...