Financial Hedging the Risk of Hurricanes

Cui Yuepeng (), Bradley Ewing and Liang Daan
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Cui Yuepeng: National Wind Institute, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA
Liang Daan: Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA

Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis, 2016, vol. 11, issue 1, 37-43

Abstract: Each year, hurricanes cause massive amounts of damage around the world. The losses caused by hurricane exceed insurance company’s capacity. This paper focused on analyzing the current financial product in the market which could help transfer the hurricane risk. At the last, the author proposed to develop Hurricane Resiliency Index, it could serve as a key basis to measure the capacity of a community to withstand, respond to, and recover from hurricanes.

Keywords: hurricane futures and options; hurricane Risk; hedge risk; hurricane resiliency index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/jbvela-2015-0009

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