Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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998311 | International Journal of Forecasting | 2006 | 14 Pages |
Weather derivatives enable energy companies to protect themselves against weather risk. Weather ensemble predictions are generated from atmospheric models and consist of multiple future scenarios for a weather variable. They can be used to forecast the density of the payoff from a weather derivative. The mean of the density is the fair price of the derivative, and the distribution about the mean is important for risk management tools, such as value-at-risk models. In this empirical paper, we use 1- to 10-day-ahead temperature ensemble predictions to forecast the mean and quantiles of the density of the payoff from a 10-day heating degree day put option. The ensemble-based forecasts compare favourably with those based on a univariate time series GARCH model. Promising quantile forecasts are also produced using quantile autoregression to model the forecast error of an ensemble-based forecast for the expected payoff.