Weather Risk Management in Agriculture
The paper focuses on valuation of a weather derivative with payoffs depending on temperature. We use historical data from the weather station in the Slovak town Košice to obtain unique prices of option contracts in an incomplete market. Numerical examples of prices of some contracts are presented, u...
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| author | Martina Bobriková |
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| description | The paper focuses on valuation of a weather derivative with payoffs depending on temperature. We use historical data from the weather station in the Slovak town Košice to obtain unique prices of option contracts in an incomplete market. Numerical examples of prices of some contracts are presented, using the Burn analysis. We provide an example of how a weather contract can be designed to hedge the financial risk of a suboptimal temperature condition. The comparative comparison of the selected option hedging strategies has shown the best results for the producers in agricultural industries who hedges against an unfavourable weather conditions. The results of analysis proved that by buying put option or call option, the farmer establishes the highest payoff in the case of temperature decrease or increase. The Long Straddle Strategy is the most expensive but is available to the farmer who hedges against a high volatility in temperature movement. We conclude with the findings that weather derivatives could be useful tools to diminish the financial losses for agricultural industries highly dependent for temperature. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ed0c6a6a650145709b0b9a945af4370b2022-12-22T02:28:40ZengMendel University PressActa Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis1211-85162464-83102016-01-016441303130910.11118/actaun201664041303Weather Risk Management in AgricultureMartina Bobriková0Department of Finance, Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Košice, B. Nemcovej 32, 040 01 Košice, Slovak RepublicThe paper focuses on valuation of a weather derivative with payoffs depending on temperature. We use historical data from the weather station in the Slovak town Košice to obtain unique prices of option contracts in an incomplete market. Numerical examples of prices of some contracts are presented, using the Burn analysis. We provide an example of how a weather contract can be designed to hedge the financial risk of a suboptimal temperature condition. The comparative comparison of the selected option hedging strategies has shown the best results for the producers in agricultural industries who hedges against an unfavourable weather conditions. The results of analysis proved that by buying put option or call option, the farmer establishes the highest payoff in the case of temperature decrease or increase. The Long Straddle Strategy is the most expensive but is available to the farmer who hedges against a high volatility in temperature movement. We conclude with the findings that weather derivatives could be useful tools to diminish the financial losses for agricultural industries highly dependent for temperature.https://acta.mendelu.cz/64/4/1303/weather derivativeoption contracttemperatureBurn analysishedging |
| spellingShingle | Martina Bobriková Weather Risk Management in Agriculture Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis weather derivative option contract temperature Burn analysis hedging |
| title | Weather Risk Management in Agriculture |
| title_full | Weather Risk Management in Agriculture |
| title_fullStr | Weather Risk Management in Agriculture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Weather Risk Management in Agriculture |
| title_short | Weather Risk Management in Agriculture |
| title_sort | weather risk management in agriculture |
| topic | weather derivative option contract temperature Burn analysis hedging |
| url | https://acta.mendelu.cz/64/4/1303/ |
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