Impact Assessment of Climate Change on Hailstorm Risk in Spanish Wine Grape Crop Insurance: Insights from Linear and Quantile Regressions

  1. Vilar-Zanón, José L. 1
  2. Nan Zhou 1
  1. 1 Department of Financial and Actuarial Economics & Statistics, Complutense University of Madrid, 28223 Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
Revista:
Risks

ISSN: 2227-9091

Año de publicación: 2024

Volumen: 12

Número: 2

Páginas: 20

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.3390/RISKS12020020 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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Resumen

There is growing concern that climate change poses a serious threat to the sustainability of the insurance business. Understanding whether climate warming is a cause for an increase in claims and losses, and how this cause–effect relationship will develop in the future, are two significant open questions. In this article, we answer both questions by particularizing the geographical area of Spain, and a precise risk, hailstorm in crop insurance in the line of business of wine grapes. We quantify climate change using the Spanish Actuarial Climate Index (SACI). We utilize a database containing all the claims resulting from hail risk in Spain from 1990 to 2022. With homogenized data, we consider as dependent variables the monthly number of claims, the monthly number of loss costs equal to one, and the monthly total losses. The independent variable is the monthly Spanish Actuarial Climate Index (SACI). We attempt to explain the former through the latter using regression and quantile regression models. Our main finding is that climate change, as measured by the SACI, explains these three dependent variables. We also provide an estimate of the increase in the monthly total losses’ Value at Risk, corresponding to a future increase in climate change measured in units of the SACI. Spanish crop insurance managers should carefully consider these conclusions in their decision-making process to ensure the sustainability of this line of business in the future.

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  • Spanish Government’s Ministry of Science and Innovation
    • PID2020-115700RB-I00
    • PID2021-125133NB-I00

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