Following the increasing awareness of the risk from volatility fluctuations, the market for hedging contracts written on realized volatility has surged. Companies looking for means to secure against unexpected accumulation of market activity can find over-the-counter products written on...

This paper is concerned with managing risk exposure to temperature using weather derivatives. We consider hedging temperature risk using so-called HDD- and CDD-index futures, which are instruments written on temperatures in specific locations over specific time periods. The temperatures are...

With the introduction of the exchange-traded German wind power futures, opportunities for German wind power producers to hedge their volumetric risk are present. We propose two continuous-time multivariate models for the wind power utilization at different wind sites, and discuss the properties...