This website is based on my PhD dissertation from the University of Kentucky's Department of Agricultural Economics. My major professor was Dr. Jerry Skees.
Disseration
Individual chapters
- Front matter
- Introduction
- Part 1 Understanding ENSO risk
- Part 2 The Prospects for ENSO Markets
- Conclusions
- Epilogue: Beyond ENSO
- Back matter
Official University of Kentucky link to dissertation
Recommended citation
Cavanaugh, Grant, "Direct Climate Markets: the Prospects for Trading Teleconnection Risk" (2013). Theses and Dissertations--Agricultural Economics. Paper 16. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/agecon_etds/16
Sponsors and friends
University of Kentucky Department of Agricultural Economics
- The National Science Foundation
- The Public Entity Risk Institute
- Swiss Re
- The Natural Hazards Center
The Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship
- USDA
- Feed the Future
- USAID
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Presentations related to dissertation
On August 6, 2013 I presented at in Washington, DC. at the annual meetings of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA).
On May 18, 2013 I presented in Chicago at R/Finance 2013 .
In both presentations I discussed my research on the lifecycle of new exchange traded derivatives. The handout introducing that work is here; the slides are here; and the full dissertation chapter is here.