This paper studies the long-run economic effects of severe weather on regional economies. A catastrophic event, such as a hurricane, will have an effect on both the directly impacted region and adjacent regions. With dramatically increasing damage from catastrophic weather events over the past...

This paper sets up and estimates a continuous-time stochastic volatility model using <p> panel data of soybean futures and options in an integrated time-series study. The <p> model of commodity price dynamics is within the class of affine asset pricing models, <p> and option prices are determined using a...</p></p></p>