Putting a price on temperature

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 746-767

  Benth, Fred Espen ^a   Šaltyte Benth, Jurate ^a   Koekebakker, Steen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Continuous time autoregressive models; Heating and cooling degree days; Samuelson effect; Seasonality; Temperature derivatives

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749058427     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2007.00564.x     Document Type: Article

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