Spatially-Aggregated Temperature Derivatives: Agricultural Risk Management in China

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-ba...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lu Zong, Manuela Ender
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-09-01
Series:International Journal of Financial Studies
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2227-7072/4/3/17