A Primer on Weather Derivatives

Pauline Barrieu and Olivier Scaillet
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Pauline Barrieu: London School of Economics

Chapter Chapter 5 in Uncertainty and Environmental Decision Making, 2009, pp 155-175 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We give a short introduction to weather derivatives. We discuss what they are made for. We describe the markets on which they are exchanged, and how they are used to promote agricultural risk transfer in developing countries via the World Bank program. We also treat some specific issues such as basis risk, pricing and design. JEL codes: G12, G13, Q54.

Keywords: weather derivatives; World Bank program (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-1129-2_5

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