The weather index-based insurances may help farmers to cope with climate risks overcoming the most common issues of … traditional insurances. However, the weather index-based insurances present the limit of the basis risk: a significant yield loss … may occur although the weather index does not trigger the indemnification, or a compensation may be granted even if there …

.S., and nd that the joint extremes in cold weather and old-age death counts exhibit the strongest level of dependence. Based …

We investigate the uncertainty dynamics surrounding extreme weather events through the lens of option and stock markets …

unique fine-scale weather data set that incorporates the whole distribution of temperatures between the minimum and maximum …

A growing literature estimates the macroeconomic effect of weather using variations in annual country-level averages of … frequency or higher spatial resolution. To address this issue, we rely on global daily weather measurements with a 30-km spatial … resolution from 1979 to 2019 and construct 164 weather variables and their lags. We select a parsimonious subset of relevant …

We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade network. Exploiting a rich …