Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/167813 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Citation: 
[Journal:] International Journal of Financial Studies [ISSN:] 2227-7072 [Volume:] 4 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] MDPI [Place:] Basel [Year:] 2016 [Pages:] 1-17
Publisher: 
MDPI, Basel
Abstract: 
In this paper, a new form of weather derivative contract, namely the climatic zone-based growth degree-day (GDD) contract, is introduced. The objective is to increase the risk management efficiency in the agricultural sector of China and to reduce the model dimension of multi-regional temperature-based weather derivatives pricing. Since the proposed contract serves as a risk management tool for all of the cities in the same climatic zone, we compare the risk hedging power between the climatic zone-based and the city-based GDD contracts. As a result, we find that the differences between the two types of temperature-based weather contracts are maintained within a certain range.
Subjects: 
agriculture
growth degree-day
risk management
weather derivatives
JEL: 
C32
C61
G12
Q14
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Document Type: 
Article

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