Climate change, weather insurance design and hedging effectiveness

Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Issues and Practice

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 286-317

  Kapphan, Ines ^a   Calanca, Pierluigi ^b   Holzkaemper, Annelie ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

climate change; hedging effectiveness; non stationarity; weather insurance design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859599912     PISSN: 10185895     EISSN: 14680440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/gpp.2012.8     Document Type: Article

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