Session 10 |
| | Wx Derivatives |
| | Organizer: Bob Dischel, WxPx.com, New York, NY
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| 1:30 PM | 10.1 | The Challenge to Meteorologists in the Weather risk market
Bob Dischel, WxPx.com, New York, NY |
| 2:00 PM | 10.2 | Reducing weather derivative risk
Aaron Studwell, Reliant Energy Wholesale Group, Houston, TX |
| 2:15 PM | 10.3 | Weather Derivatives-Weather Impacts and the World of Finance
Jon B. Davis, Salomon Smith Barney, Chicago, IL |
| 2:30 PM | 10.4 | Weather derivatives Data: Practical Considerations and Technical Solutions
David A. Portman, AER, Cambridge, MA |
| 2:45 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 10.5 | Developing and Tracking climate indices for the weather derivatives market
Michael Crowe, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and T. R. Karl |
| 3:45 PM | 10.6 | Worldwide weather, water and climate data: the key drivers in past and future derivatives trading
Susan Zevin, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. C. Eustis |
| 4:00 PM | 10.7 | Development of standardized data sets for weather derivatives
Richard J. Murnane, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, St. George's, Bermuda |
| 4:15 PM | 10.8 | Weather Derivatives Pricing and the Market Forecast
Kevin D. Green, Castlebridge Weather Markets, Chicago, IL |
| 4:30 PM | 10.9 | Panel Discussion: Critical Issues in the Weather Market
Bob Dischel, WxPx, New York, NY |