One case study of catastrophes covers will be the Mexican cat bond. The dataset of past historical events in Mexico can be downloaded here.

Since everything we need is in this dataset, everything can be done using R.

mex=read.table("https://blogperso.univ-rennes1.fr/arthur.charpentier/public/conferences/EQ-mex-6-5.txt") 
mex$D=mex$V1*10000+mex$V2*100+mex$V3 
mex$Date=as.Date(as.character(mex$D),"%Y%m%d")

Arthur Charpentier

Arthur Charpentier, professor in Montréal, in Actuarial Science. Former professor-assistant at ENSAE Paristech, associate professor at Ecole Polytechnique and assistant professor… Read more

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