reinsurers. In response, weather risk hedging may be valuable, however, due to basis risk it has been largely unsuccessful to … dependence of weather risk to reduce basis risk. The analysis shows that the LSHAC model can improve the hedging performance … through more accurate modelling of the dependence structure of weather risks and is more effcient in hedging extreme downside …

interesting for investors and issuers of weather contracts to take advantages of geographic diversification, hedging effects and …Forecasting based pricing of Weather Derivatives (WDs) is a new approach in valuation of contingent claims on … nontradable underlyings. Standard techniques are based on historical weather data. Forward-looking information such as …

fundamentals, focusing primarily on temperature. We show that when theory clearly identifies the fundamental, i.e., at temperatures …-thirds of the entire winter return variability occurs on these days. Moreover, when theory suggests no such relation, i.e., at … is good news for the theory and for market efficiency, not bad news. In terms of residual FCOJ return volatility, we also …

With the increasing share of volatile renewable energies, weather prediction becomes more important to electricity … markets. The weather-driven uncertainty of renewable forecast errors could have price increasing impacts. This research sets … weather types and their renewable production uncertainty is proved via empirical methods. Weather types are identified in …