. Predictions - pricing of derivatives means predicting - remain uncertain. Findings are based on empirical, experimental techniques … using fictituous derivatives, others. …

This paper presents international evidence on the use of financial derivatives for a sample of 7,292 non …-financial firms from 48 countries including the United States. Across all countries, 59.8% of the firms use derivatives in general …, while 43.6% use currency derivatives, 32.5% interest rate derivatives, and only 10.0% commodity price derivatives …