Hedging Flood Losses Using Cat Bonds

In this paper, we develop a methodology to model the risk of losses resulting from a natural disaster in which the intensity parameter of the non-homogeneous Poisson process has an upward trend and a seasonal component. We apply this model to losses due to floods in the Financial Assistance Program of the Government of Quebec (Canada). We use the historically observed risk premiums to assess the financial costs for the government if it had issued such instruments to hedge risk linked to floods

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Year of publication:	2015
Authors:	Tetu, Alexandre
Other Persons:	Lai, Van Son (contributor) ; Soumaré, Issouf (contributor) ; Gendron, M. Michel (contributor)
Publisher:	[2015]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Hedging \| Überschwemmung \| Flood \| Risikomodell \| Risk model \| Risikomanagement \| Risk management \| Katastrophe \| Disaster \| Elementarschadenversicherung \| Natural disaster insurance \| Katastrophenschaden \| Disaster damage \| Insurance-Linked Securities \| Insurance-linked securities \| Anleihe \| Bond \| Verlust \| Loss \| Portfolio-Management \| Portfolio selection