monopolist to study the effects of privatization on steady state levels of income. We allow for public sector inefficiencies … relative inefficiency of public firms and the amount of public investment. Furthermore, the gains from privatization are found … to be strongly related to the balance sheet of the public firm that is privatized. Privatization of public firms which …

investigates the case of a large privatized firm subject to many policy constraints. The last steps of Telefonica's privatization … documented phenomenon both in this study and in the cross-country literature on privatization; e.g. political ends in … privatization, influence in appointments, golden shares) as the most visible part of such collusion. Liberalization and multi …

study uses survey data, which enables us to differentiate between hedging aimed at translation exposure and transaction … increasing with firm size and exposure and that liquidity constraints are important in explaining transaction exposure hedging …. Importantly, we find that the existence of loan covenants explains translation exposure hedging. This suggests that firms hedge …

The paper assesses the usefulness of selective hedging strategies when combined with forecast techniques in the live … hog contract. The use of routine futures and options hedging is not attractive relative to a cash-only strategy. However …, forecasting and hedging can contribute to price risk management improvement for risk-averse producers. Consistent with previous …

provide also an explicit way to compute the hedging ratio (Delta) to hedge the option with its underlying. …

position in the stock. For example, delta-hedging involves two deltas, one corresponding to the stock and the other to the …

-varying minimum variance hedge ratios for corn and nickel spot and futures prices. Out-of-sample point estimates of hedging portfolio … variance show that compared to the state-independent BEKK-GARCH model, the RS-BEKK-GARCH model improves out-of-sample hedging …