Major airlines rely on fuel hedging to manage risk of volatile fuel prices. We show that fuel hedging leads to lump sum … airline fuel costs. Our estimation results suggest that differences in reported fuel costs across airlines (due to … heterogeneous fuel hedging outcomes) lead to significant differences in ticket prices. In particular, a 10% reduction in the …

airline industry as an example and derives the optimal fuel cost hedging ratio as a function of firm-specific revenue and cost … capture the time-variation in the fuel cost hedging demand for a typical airline. By regressing the logarithm of Tobin's Q … market hedging demand is high. More important, we use the time-series correlation between an airline's hedging ratio and the …

. While most research on fuel hedging has concentrated on the U.S. airline market, this paper is the first study to include …. Financial and operational hedging strategies serve aviation managers as a tool to counteract high and volatile fuel prices … reject the hypothesis that financial hedging decreases risk exposure. One possibility is that the decreased volatility in jet …

Purpose: Investigation of the relation between firms' values and aviation fuel hedging activities via a dynamic panel … data from nine U.S. major passenger airlines representing 77.2 per cent of the U.S. domestic airline industry, in terms of … statistically significant long run relationship between firms' values and aviation fuel hedging activities for the U.S. major …

structural oil supply and demand shocks. We find that investing in the Datastream World Airline Index offers a hedging benefit … Hamilton (2019), we investigate the conditional comovement of airline stock returns with real oil prices in response to … negative comovement following shocks to world economic activity and airline stock returns. …

Purpose: Investigation of the relation between firms’ values and aviation fuel hedging activities via a dynamic panel … data from nine U.S. major passenger airlines representing 77.2 per cent of the U.S. domestic airline industry, in terms of … statistically significant long run relationship between firms’ values and aviation fuel hedging activities for the U.S. major …

. While most research on fuel hedging has concentrated on the U.S. airline market, this paper is the first study to include …. Financial and operational hedging strategies serve aviation managers as a tool to counteract high and volatile fuel prices … reject the hypothesis that financial hedging decreases risk exposure. One possibility is that the decreased volatility in jet …

This article analyzes the importance of supply-side fluctuations for corporate hedging. To establish a causal link, we … Safe Harbor Reform of 2005. Following the reform-induced expansion in the availability of derivatives, fuel hedging by … financially sound airlines. Similarly, we find that the hedging propensity increased in a general sample of non-financial firms …

's cash-flows. This paper presents a case study approach demonstrating the hedging strategy employed by an international air … nonlinear hedging instruments by providing an in-depth analysis of the firm's hedging policy and its derivative usage. Using the …-tune its current hedging portfolio by adding tailored exotic options. Specifically, we develop an annual average-price option …