A market for weather risk? Conflicting metrics, attempts at compromise, and limits to commensuration

Organization Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1395-1419

  Huault, Isabelle ^a   Rainelli Weiss, Hélène ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

Author keywords

commensuration; compromise; derivatives markets; risk commodification; social studies of finance

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053993485     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: 17413044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840611421251     Document Type: Article

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