Papers by Gunther Leobacher
Applied Mathematical Finance, 2011
We are interested in pricing rainfall options written on precipitation at specific locations. We ... more We are interested in pricing rainfall options written on precipitation at specific locations. We assume the existence of a tradeable financial instrument in the market whose price process is affected by the quantity of rainfall. We then construct a suitable "Markovian-Gamma" model for the rainfall process which accounts for the seasonal change of precipitation and show how maximum likelihood estimators can be obtained for its parameters.
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Papers by Gunther Leobacher