Weather derivatives: Modeling and pricing weather-related risk

Weather Derivatives: Modeling and Pricing Weather-Related Risk

Volumn 9781461460718, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-300

  Alexandridis, Antonis K ^a   Zapranis, Achilleas D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-6071-8     Document Type: Book

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