In the line of Cossette et al. (2003), we adapt and refine known Markovian-type risk models of Asmussen (1989) and Lu and Li (2005) to a hurricane risk context. These models are supported by the findings that El Niño/Southern Oscillation (as well as other natural phenomena) influence both the...

Although the finance literature has devoted a lot of research into the development of advanced models for improving the pricing and hedging performance, there has been much less emphasis on approaches to measure dynamic hedging effectiveness. This article discusses a statistical framework based...