Weather Derivatives: A New Class of Financial Instruments

A New Class of Banach Sequence Spaces

Applications of copulas to Analysis of Efficiency of Weather Derivatives as Primary Crop Insurance Instruments

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The Role of Financial Instruments and Derivatives Disclosure on the Excess Return and Company Value Based on Iran Accounting Standards

Based on IFRS laws, British companies have started providing their reporting systems according to International Standards Requirements regarding disclosing their financial derivatives since January 2005. In 2013, Iran revised its Accounting Standard No. 15 to include the derivative instruments. The present study aims at investigating the effect of this revision on financial derivatives and inst...

Capability-Based Financial Instruments

Every novel cooperative arrangement of mutually suspicious parties interacting electronically — every smart contract — effectively requires a new cryptographic protocol. However, if every new contract requires new cryptographic protocol design, our dreams of cryptographically enabled electronic commerce would be unreachable. Cryptographic protocol design is too hard and expensive, given our unl...

Pricing Weather Derivatives

SPRING 2000 T he impact of weather on business activities is enormous and varies both geographically and seasonally. For example, the 1982-1983 and 1997-1998 El Niño conditions were associated with warm winters in the eastern and midwestern U.S., resulting in significant energy cost savings for consumers and businesses. In addition, these conditions suppressed hurricane activities in the Atlant...