Die Bedeutung des Wetters als Risikofaktor in der Landwirtschaft ist seit langem bekannt. Zur Reduzierung wetterbedingter Risiken wurden in den letzten Jahren insbesondere Ertragsausfallversicherungen diskutiert. Ein relativ neues Instrument zur Steuerung des Mengenrisikos stellen sog....

In usual pricing approaches for weather derivatives, forward-looking information such as meteorological weather forecasts is not considered. Thus, important knowledge used by market participants is ignored in theory. By extending a standard model for the daily temperature, this paper allows the...

Forecasting temperature in time and space is an important precondition for both the design of weather derivatives and the assessment of the hedging effectiveness of index based weather insurance. In this article, we show how this task can be accomplished by means of Kriging techniques. Moreover,...