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Weather risk and the viability of weather insurance in China's Gansu, Shaanxi, and Henan provinces
Turvey, Calum G.; Kong, Rong - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 2 (2010) 1, pp. 5-24
/methodology/approach – The data are based on 1,564 farm households surveyed in Shaanxi, Henan, and Gansu provinces in Central China between …. Research limitations/implications – This research is based on primary data gathered in China. However, the authors are limited … weather data from the weather station in Ashland, Kansas which has similarities to the wheat growing regions of China. While …
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Cropping systems as water harvesting techniques for barley production in arid and semi‐arid areas in Jordan
Abu‐Nukta, Ali; Sertyesilisik, Begum; Alkhaddar, Rafid - In: Journal of Facilities Management 7 (2009) 4, pp. 319-331
‐arid to arid. Annual average rainfall in the area is not enough for the survival of barley and farmers are usually grassing … land can be used to supplement the rainfall to the cultivated land. This increases the share of runoff on the cultivated …
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Introduction of weather‐derivative concepts: perspectives for Portugal
Ghiulnara, Alieva; Viegas, Cristina - In: The Journal of Risk Finance 11 (2010) 1, pp. 9-19
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of weather derivatives markets and to highlight the importance of the contributing factors for weather risk management such as weather sensitivity, weather forecast, and economic growth. In this paper, the prospective of using...
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Modelling rain risk: a multi‐order Markov chain model approach
Stowasser, Markus - In: The Journal of Risk Finance 13 (2011) 1, pp. 45-60
importance of the model order for the pricing of a rainfall index put option. Design/methodology/approach – For the first time a … criteria analysis of rainfall data for one weather station in the US. The outcome of this model is compared to simpler Markov …‐order model. Clear differences between the daily simulation and the burn method are found when pricing a put option on a rainfall …
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Quantifying spatial basis risk for weather index insurance
Norton, Michael T.; Turvey, Calum; Osgood, Daniel - In: The Journal of Risk Finance 14 (2012) 1, pp. 20-34
Purpose – The purpose of this paper to develop an empirical methodology for managing spatial basis risk in weather index insurance by studying the fundamental causes for differences in weather risk between distributed locations. Design/methodology/approach – The paper systematically compares...
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A spatial Bayesian approach to weather derivatives
Paulson, Nicholas D.; Hart, Chad E.; Hayes, Dermot J. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 70 (2010) 1, pp. 79-96
rainfall model utilizing spatial kriging and Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques is proposed to estimate rainfall histories … richer set of results. Furthermore, while the application is specific to forage production in Iowa, the rainfall model could …
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Sustainable development early warning and financing risk management of resource-based industrial clusters using optimization algorithms
Wang, Yawen; Xue, Weixian - In: Journal of Enterprise Information Management 35 (2022) 4/5, pp. 1374-1391
Purpose The purpose is to analyze and discuss the sustainable development (SD) and financing risk assessment (FRA) of resource-based industrial clusters under the Internet of Things (IoT) economy and promote the application of Machine Learning methods and intelligent optimization algorithms in...
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Monitoring corporate credit risk with multiple data sources
Ni, Du; Lim, Ming K.; Li, Xingzhi; Qu, Yingchi; Yang, Mei - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 123 (2022) 2, pp. 434-450
Purpose Monitoring corporate credit risk (CCR) has traditionally relied on such indicators as income, debt and inventory at a company level. These data are usually released on a quarterly or annual basis by the target company and include, exclusively, the financial data of the target company. As...
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A high-dimensional classification approach based on class-dependent feature subspace
Chen, Fuzan; Wu, Harris; Dou, Runliang; Li, Minqiang - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 117 (2017) 10, pp. 2325-2339
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to build a compact and accurate classifier for high-dimensional classification. Design/methodology/approach A classification approach based on class-dependent feature subspace (CFS) is proposed. CFS is a class-dependent integration of a support vector machine...
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Periodic performance prediction for real‐time business process monitoring
Kang, Bokyoung; Kim, Dongsoo; Kang, Suk‐Ho - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 112 (2012) 1, pp. 4-23
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide industrial managers with insight into the real‐time progress of running processes. The authors formulated a periodic performance prediction algorithm for use in a proposed novel approach to real‐time business process monitoring....
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