It is an undisputed fact that weather risk increases over time due to climate change. However, qualification of this … statement with regard to the type of weather risk and geographical location is needed. We investigate the application of novel … statistical tools for assessing changes in weather risk over time. We apply local t-test, change point tests and Mann-Kendall test …

It is an undisputed fact that weather risk increases over time due to climate change. However, qualification of this … statement with regard to the type of weather risk and geographical location is needed. We investigate the application of novel … statistical tools for assessing changes in weather risk over time. We apply local t-test, change point tests and Mann-Kendall test …

Systemic weather risk is a major obstacle for the formation of private (non- subsidized) crop insurance. This paper … diversification effects considerably. -- Weather risk ; crop insurance ; copula … explores the possibility of spatial diversification of insurance by estimating the joint occurrence of unfavorable weather …

analysis is based on a 50-year panel of monthly crime and weather data for 2,972 U.S. counties. I identify the effect of … weather on monthly crime by using a semi-parametric bin estimator and controlling for county-by-month and county-by-year fixed …

We study a new risk measure inspired from risk theory with a heat wave risk analysis motivation. We show that this risk … useful for measuring the potential impact of climate change on heat wave risk. Numerical illustrations are given. …