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Meteorological Forecasts and the Pricing of Temperature Futures

Matthias Ritter, Oliver Musshoff and Martin Odening
The Journal of Derivatives Winter 2011, 19 (2) 45-60; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3905/jod.2011.19.2.045
Matthias Ritter
is a PhD candidate at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in cooperation with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a member of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 649 on Economic Risk in Berlin, Germany.
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Oliver Musshoff
is a professor of agricultural economics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in Göttingen, Germany.
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Martin Odening
is a professor of farm management at Humboldt Universität Berlin and a member of the Center of Applied Statistics and Economics and the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 649 on Economic Risk in Berlin, Germany.
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Futures contracts on the weather may seemodd, yet weather risk can be a serious matter. Weather is plainly not a storable commodity, so the cost-of-carry pricing model does not apply. Instead, one expects a temperature futures contract to be priced close to the consensus expectation based on current information for the temperature variable at contract maturity. But everyone knows how difficult it is to predict the weather, even though some patterns are well understood (e.g., it is colder in the winter than in the summer, on average). In this article, the authors build and estimate temperature models for three major cities that have traded weather futures contracts. The models include seasonal variation, positive serial correlation over short periods, a possible longterm warming trend, and random fluctuation. To the model based on historically observed temperatures, they add forwardlooking weather forecasts from an online weather service. These forecast-augmented models are more accurate in matching market prices for weather futures, and they are even closer to futures prices than would be “perfect” forecasts constructed from realized temperature data

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Matthias Ritter, Oliver Musshoff, Martin Odening
The Journal of Derivatives Nov 2011, 19 (2) 45-60; DOI: 10.3905/jod.2011.19.2.045

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Matthias Ritter, Oliver Musshoff, Martin Odening
The Journal of Derivatives Nov 2011, 19 (2) 45-60; DOI: 10.3905/jod.2011.19.2.045
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