A comparison of wavelet networks and genetic programming in the context of temperature derivatives

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• 作者：Antonis K. Alexandridis^a ; ^{A.Alexandridis@kent.ac.uk}Author Vitae ; Michael Kampouridis^bAuthor Vitae ; Sam Cramer^bAuthor Vitae
• 关键词：Weather derivatives ; Wavelet networks ; Temperature derivatives ; Genetic programming ; Modelling ; Forecasting
• 刊名：International Journal of Forecasting
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January-March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：33
• 期：1
• 页码：21-47
• 全文大小：4439 K
• 卷排序：33

文摘

The purpose of this study is to develop a model that describes the dynamics of the daily average temperature accurately in the context of weather derivatives pricing. More precisely, we compare two state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms, namely wavelet networks and genetic programming, with the classic linear approaches that are used widely in the pricing of temperature derivatives in the financial weather market, as well as with various machine learning benchmark models such as neural networks, radial basis functions and support vector regression. The accuracy of the valuation process depends on the accuracy of the temperature forecasts. Our proposed models are evaluated and compared, both in-sample and out-of-sample, in various locations where weather derivatives are traded. Furthermore, we expand our analysis by examining the stability of the forecasting models relative to the forecasting horizon. Our findings suggest that the proposed nonlinear methods outperform the alternative linear models significantly, with wavelet networks ranking first, and that they can be used for accurate weather derivative pricing in the weather market.