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Hedging Flood Losses Using Cat Bonds

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  • Têtu Alexandre

    (Financial Markets Placements, Investments, General Funds, Industrial Alliance Insurance and Financial Services Inc., Quebec City, QC, Canada)

  • Lai Van Son
  • Soumaré Issouf
  • Gendron Michel

    (Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate, Faculty of Business Administration, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada)

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a methodology to model the risk of losses resulting from a natural disaster in which the intensity parameter of the non-homogeneous Poisson process has an upward trend and a seasonal component. We apply this model to losses due to floods in the Financial Assistance Program of the Government of Quebec (Canada). We use the historically observed risk premiums to assess the financial costs for the government if it had issued such instruments to hedge risk linked to floods.

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  • Têtu Alexandre & Lai Van Son & Soumaré Issouf & Gendron Michel, 2015. "Hedging Flood Losses Using Cat Bonds," Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance, De Gruyter, vol. 9(2), pages 149-184, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:apjrin:v:9:y:2015:i:2:p:149-184:n:2
    DOI: 10.1515/apjri-2014-0024
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