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WEATHER DERIVATIVES - ORIGIN, TYPES AND APPLICATION (Derywaty pogodowe - geneza, rodzaje oraz zastosowanie)

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Binkowski P.
Contemporary Economics
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2008
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issue 1(5)
47-68
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The number of companies that are exposed to the revenues loss risk caused by weather variability is still increasing. The businesses that are mostly exposed to weather risk are following: energy, agriculture, constructions and transport. That situation has initiated dynamic growth of weather derivatives markets as well as the awareness of the weather risk among the market participants. Presently, the weather derivatives markets evaluate rapidly in all the mature economies: USA, Asia and Europe. Constructing weather derivatives relies on quantifying climate factors in the form of indexes, what is quite simple task, more difficultly can be gathering precise historical data of required climate factors. Taking into consideration so far development of derivatives n especially the financial derivatives based on different types of indexes n financial market has at disposal wide range of different types of proved derivatives (futures, forward, options, swaps), which can be successfully utilized on the weather-driven markets both for hedging weather risk and speculating.
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Pogoda jako domena źródłowa wyrażeń metaforycznych oznaczających obecność lub brak problemów w języku angielskim

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Żołnowska I.
Avant
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2011
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vol. 2
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issue 1
151-163 (en: 165-179)
EN
The structure of everyday communication reflects metaphorical thinking. People speak about the presence or absence of problems in terms of weather. Problems appear in every¬day life and so does the weather topic. Bad weather often evokes sadness, therefore it can be to said to constitute a problem; similarly, good weather is often equated with cheerful mood. Thus, in view of the above analysis, weather can be seen as an im¬portant experiential basis for conceptual metaphors.
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POĽNOHOSPODÁRSKE POMERY V ŠARIŠSKO-ZEMPLÍNSKEJ ŽUPE

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Kubuš M.
Človek a spoločnosť. Internetový časopis pre pôvodné teoretické a výskumné štúdie z oblasti spoločenských vied
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2010
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vol. 13
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issue 3
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One of the main ideas of this paper is an effort to capture the region of Eastern Slovakia in the World War II from the perspective of state and agricultural production. The first part follows the general agricultural situation in Slovakia, shortly before and during the formation of the Slovak Republic. The second part has a regional character. Considerable attention is devote to the characterization area Saris-Zemplin county and their weather, climate and production conditions, the striking way affect the quality of life of the population in this area. In the second part of the study separately devote crop and livestock production. These are complemented by valuable statistical data and video to help us create an image of the farm life in eastern Slovakia. An important fact is that the study is constructed on the basis of archival documents from domestic and foreign origin, as it adds considerably to the uniqueness
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