Weather derivative valuation: The meteorological, statistical, financial and mathematical foundations

Weather Derivative Valuation: The Meteorological, Statistical, Financial and Mathematical Foundations

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-373

  Jewson, Stephen ^a   Brix, Anders ^a   Ziehmann, Christine ^a  

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