Weather Forecasting for Weather Derivatives
面向天气衍生品的天气预测
We take a simple time series approach to modeling and forecasting daily average temperature in U.S. cities, and we inquire systematically as to whether it may prove useful from the vantage point of participants in the weather derivatives market. The answer is, perhaps surprisingly, yes. Time series modeling reveals conditional mean dynamics and, crucially, strong conditional variance dynamics in daily average temperature, and it reveals sharp differences between the…