Profitable disasters: Computing CAT bonds using barrier options

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Catastrophic events cause damages that can be too costly. Such catastrophes can be insured. These insurances are tradable as CAT bonds. One of the ways to measure the payout after a certain trigger event occurred are by barrier options.

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