Pricing Weather Derivatives for Extreme Events

2011/09/19 by Erhardt, Robert J., Smith, Richard L.
#Applications (stat.AP) #FOS: Computer and information sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1109.4168

Abstract

We consider pricing weather derivatives for use as protection against weather extremes. The method described utilizes results from spatial statistics and extreme value theory to first model extremes in the weather as a max-stable process, and then use these models to simulate payments for a general collection of weather derivatives. These simulations capture the spatial dependence of payments. Incorporating results from catastrophe ratemaking, we show how this method can be used to compute risk loads and premiums for weather derivatives which are renewal-additive.

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