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Mitigating wildfire losses via insurance‐linked securities: Modeling and risk management perspectives

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  • Hong Li
  • Jianxi Su

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This paper investigates the use of catastrophe (CAT) bonds as a risk management tool for wildfires. We introduce a set of Bayesian dynamic models designed to accurately represent wildfire losses, allowing a thorough examination of wildfire CAT bond pricing and hedge effectiveness. Our model captures crucial attributes of wildfire data, such as zero inflation, overdispersion, temporal fluctuations, and spatial dependence. Employing extensive quantitative analyses of US wildfire data, we highlight that CAT bonds can substantially mitigate tail risk associated with insurers' liability. Importantly, index‐based CAT bonds, drawing their payouts from aggregate wildfire losses over a larger geographical scope than an insurer's operational area, also provide effective hedges. Our research underscores the potential of wildfire CAT bonds as an enhancement to traditional reinsurance strategies, offering insurers an improved means to manage and mitigate wildfire exposures amidst inherent uncertainties.

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  • Hong Li & Jianxi Su, 2024. "Mitigating wildfire losses via insurance‐linked securities: Modeling and risk management perspectives," Journal of Risk & Insurance, The American Risk and Insurance Association, vol. 91(2), pages 383-414, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jrinsu:v:91:y:2024:i:2:p:383-414
    DOI: 10.1111/jori.12449
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