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Pricing Financial Derivatives on Weather Sensitive Assets

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  • Jerzy Filar

    (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Australia)

  • Boda Kang
  • Malgorzata Korolkiewicz

    (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Australia)

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We study pricing of derivatives when the underlying asset is sensitive to weather variables such as temperature, rainfall and others. We shall use temperature as a generic example of an important weather variable. In reality, such a variable would only account for a portion of the variability in the price of an asset. However, for the purpose of launching this line of investigations we shall assume that the asset price is a deterministic function of temperature and consider two functional forms: quadratic and exponential. We use the simplest mean-reverting process to model the temperature, the AR(1) time series model and its continuous-time counterpart the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. In continuous time, we use the replicating portfolio approach to obtain partial differential equations for a European call option price under both functional forms of the relationship between the weather-sensitive asset price and temperature. For the continuous-time model we also derive a binomial approximation, a finite difference method and a Monte Carlo simulation to numerically solve our option price PDE. In the discrete time model, we derive the distribution of the underlying asset and a formula for the value of a European call option under the physical probability measure.

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  • Jerzy Filar & Boda Kang & Malgorzata Korolkiewicz, 2008. "Pricing Financial Derivatives on Weather Sensitive Assets," Research Paper Series 223, Quantitative Finance Research Centre, University of Technology, Sydney.
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