Pricing Hurricane Bonds Using a Physically Based Option Pricing Approach

Carolyn W. Chang, Jack S. K. Chang and Min-Teh Yu ()

North American Actuarial Journal, 2022, vol. 26, issue 1, 27-42

Abstract: Hurricane bonds are unique in that they are structured with a dual exercise condition: a physically based condition that the underlying hurricane makes landfall at a prespecified location, and a standard moneyness condition that they end in the money. As the time of landfall is uncertain, their maturities are also uniquely random. This research thus proposes a modeling methodology to solve this option-pricing problem—that is, to price hurricane bonds at the nexus of atmospheric science and finance by integrating hurricane risk modeling and option pricing modeling. We resolve this dual exercise/random maturity issue by implementing a coupled hurricane generator to simulate hurricane synthetic tracks, intensity, radius, two-dimensional wind fields, and hurricane-index value evolution along the tracks. We price the increasingly popular parametric and parametric-index hurricane bonds by Monte Carlo simulations, as the underlying hurricane indices are untraded and thus replication pricing is not viable.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/10920277.2020.1824798

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