Analysis of rainfall derivatives using daily precipitation models: Opportunities and pitfalls

Agricultural Finance Review

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 135-156

  Odening, Martin ^a   Musshoff, Oliver ^a   Xu, Wei ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hedging effectiveness; Precipitation modeling; Weather derivatives

Indexed keywords

EID: 51349141927     PISSN: 00021466     EISSN: 20416326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00214660780001202     Document Type: Article

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