Indeksy meteorologiczne a pogodowe instrumenty pochodne
Weather indexes and weather derivatives

Summary/Abstract: The risk of unfavourable changes in weather conditions is necessarily related to human activity. In order to hedge against the weather risk, weather derivatives are widely used. They are created on the basis of weather indexes, values of which are the basis for valuation and settlement of weather derivatives. This paper is focused on weather derivatives from the weather indexes perspective. The characteristics of the weather risk will be presented first and next, the genesis and the essence of weather derivatives and finally the review of weather indexes which are currently in use in transactions of this type on the stock market and the over the counter market.

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