This note studies the risk-management decisions of a risk-averse farmer. The farmer faces multiple sources of price …

When measuring market risk, credit institutions and Alternative Investment Fund Managers may deviate from equally … weighting historical data in their Value-at-Risk calculation and instead use an exponential time series weighting. The use of … exponential weighting in the Value-at-Risk calculation is very popular because it takes into account changes in market volatility …

. Besides output price uncertainty, the firm faces additional sources of risk which are aggregated into an additive background … risk. We show that the firm always chooses its optimal debt-equity ratio to minimize the weighted average cost of capital …, irrespective of the risk attitude of the firm and the incidence of the multiple sources of uncertainty. Even though the …

Our study examines the behavior of a risk-averse investor who faces two sources of uncertainty: a random asset price … and inflation risk. Both sources of uncertainty make it difficult to stabilize consumption over time. However, investors … can enter risk-sharing markets, such as futures markets, to manage these risks. We develop a dynamic risk management model …

general view of constant relative risk aversion to investigate on different equivalence relations. Then we compare our results …

a stochastic growth and discount factors in determining risk-adjusted values. These methods are supported by …-based implications for the term structure of risk prices. As an illustration of the methods, I re-examine some recent preference based …