Pricing & Structuring Weather Derivative and Risk Transfer Deals

Below are a selection of articles and papers discussing pricing & structuring weather risk management and weather derivatives deals.

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Pricing weather derivatives using the indifference pricing approach 
Paper from the Society of Actuaries

Weather Derivative Structuring and Pricing: Application to the case of Maple Syrup Industry in Quebec 
Research thesis

A stochastic daily mean temperature model for weather derivatives 
Paper from the National Weather Center Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program

Statistical Analysis of Asian Weather Derivatives 
Paper from Institute for Statistics and Econometrics CASE - Center for Applied Statistics and Economics

The pricing of temperature futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange 
Paper by Gregor Dorfleitner and Maximilian Wimmer

Pricing of Asian temperature risk 
Discussion paper by Fred Benth, Wolfgang Karl Härdle and Brenda López Cabrera

Optimal Design of Weather Bonds
Paper by Wei Xu, Martin Odening and Oliver Mußhoff
First Published 2008

Spatial Aggregation and Weather Risk Management
Paper by Joshua D. Woodard and Philip Garcia
First Published Aug 2007

Modeling and Pricing Rain Risk
Paper by Oliver Mußhoff, Martin Odening, and Wei Xu
First Published Aug 2006

Pricing Summer Days Options by Good - Deal Bounds
Paper by Kanamura, Takashi and Ohashi, Kazuhiko of Hitotsubashi University
First Published Nov 2007

A Spatial Approach to Addressing Weather Derivative Basis Risk: A Drought Insurance Example
Paper by Nick Paulson and Chad Hart of Iowa State Uni
First Published Jul 2006

Weather Derivative Pricing and the Spatial Variability of US Temperature Trends
Paper by Stephen Jewson and Anders Brix of Risk Management Solutions
First Published April 2004

Weather Derivative Pricing and the Distributions of Standard Weather Indices on US Temperatures
Paper by Stephen Jewson of Risk Management Solutions
First Published April 2004

Weather Derivative Pricing and the Year Ahead Forecasting of Temperature Part 1: Empirical Results
Paper by Stephen Jewson and Anders Brix of Risk Management Solutions
First Published April 2004

Weather Derivative Pricing and the Year Ahead Forecasting of Temperature Part 2: Theory
Paper by Stephen Jewson of Risk Management Solutions
First Published April 2004

Weather Derivative Pricing and the Potential Accuracy of Daily Temperature Modelling
Paper by Stephen Jewson of Risk Management Solutions
First Published April 2004

A Preliminary Assessment of the Utility of Seasonal Forecasts for the Pricing of U.S. Temperature Based Weather Derivatives
Paper by Stephen Jewson of Risk Management Solutions
First Published April 2004

Fair Pricing of Weather Derivatives
Paper by Eckhard Platen and Jason West
First Published October 2003

Model Risk in the Pricing of Weather Derivatives
Paper by Olivier Roustant, Jean-Paul Laurent, Xavier Bay, Laurent Carraro
First Published September 2003

A Comparison Of Different Approaches To Forecasting The Spot Price At Maturity And The Pricing Of Weather Derivatives
Paper by Teddy Oetomo and Max Stevenson, University of Sydney
First Published August 2003

The Price of Power: The Valuation of Power and Weather Derivatives
Paper by Craig Pirrong and Martin Jermakyan
First Published June 2000

Pricing the Weather
Article by Melanie Cao and Jason Wei from Risk Magazine
First Published May 2000

Benchmark Pricing of Weather Derivatives
Paper from the University of Technology, Sydney

On Modelling and Pricing Weather Derivatives
Paper from KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Pricing weather derivatives by marginal value
Paper by Mark Davis, Dept of Mathematics,Imperial College London

Valuing Power and Weather Derivatives on a Mesh Using Finite Difference Methods
Paper by Craig Pirrong, Olin School of Business, Washington University

Valuation of weather derivatives
Presentation by Weather Risk Advisory (requires Microsoft Power Point)

Equilibrium Valuation of Weather Derivatives
Paper from the Faculty of Management, University of Toronto

Weather derivatives: Instruments and Pricing Issues
Paper from Financial Engineering Associates

Pricing Weather Derivatives
Article from Derivatives Strategy Magazine

Valuation of Weather Derivatives Using Monte Carlo Simulation
Article from Zanders Partners

Weather Derivatives - Pricing and Hedging
Article by Izzy Nelken of Super Computer Consultng

The Fledgling Weather Market Takes Off Part 5:The Dischel D1 Stochastic Temperature Model For Valuing Weather Futures and Options
Article from Applied Derivatives Trading

A Calculus of Risk
Article from Scientific American








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