Since last decade, weather derivatives have been traded by Chicago Mercantile Exchange(CME) to hedge the weather risk. In addition to HDD,CDD and CAT, which are index written on the temperature in U.S. and Europe, Pacific Rim Index is newly developed and actively traded nowadays. In terms of the...

Different weather events play an important role for industries with profits depending on temperature or other weather conditions. A market for trading on temperature events has recently emerged. The traded financial contracts allowing to transfer weather risks are called weather derivatives. The...

Weather derivatives (WD) are different from most financial derivatives because the underlying weather cannot be traded and therefore cannot be replicated by other financial instruments. The market price of risk (MPR) is an important parameter of the associated equivalent martingale measures used...

Most farmers in South Africa use standard insurance to protect their crops against natural disasterssuch as hail or strong winds. However, no South African insurance contracts exist to compensatefor too much or too little rain (although floods are covered), or which will pay out iftemperatures...

On the temperature derivative market, modeling temperature volatility is an important issue for pricing and hedging. In order to apply pricing tools of financial mathematics, one needs to isolate a Gaussian risk factor. A conventional model for temperature dynamics is a stochastic model with...

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 meteorological forecasts or the implied market price of risk (MPR)...

We model the logarithm of the spot price of electricity with a normal inverse Gaussian (NIG) process and the wind speed and wind power production with two Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. In order to reproduce the correlation between the spot price and the wind power production, namely between a...

Seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre werden 'Wetterderivate' als neues Instrument zum Management wetterbedingter Mengenrisiken diskutiert. Im Gegensatz zu schadensbezogenen Versicherungen erfolgt der Hedge bei Wetterderivaten durch an Wetterindizes (Niederschlagssummen, Temperatursummen etc.) gekoppelte...

Many companies depend on weather conditions, so they require reliable weather forecasts for production planning or risk hedging. In this article, we propose a new way of gaining weather forecasts by exploiting the forward-looking information included in the market prices of weather derivatives...

Many business people such as farmers and financial investors are affected by indirect losses caused by scarce or abundant rainfall. Because of the high potential of insuring rainfall risk, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) began trading rainfall derivatives in 2011. Compared to temperature...