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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...
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Firm value is influenced in many direct and indirect ways by financial risks, which consist of unexpected changes of foreign exchange rates, interest rates and commodity prices. The fact that a significant number of corporations are committing resources to risk management activi-ties is,...
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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 …
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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 …
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position in the stock. For example, delta-hedging involves two deltas, one corresponding to the stock and the other to the …
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provide also an explicit way to compute the hedging ratio (Delta) to hedge the option with its underlying. …
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For option whose striking price equals the forward price of the underlying asset, the Black-Scholes pricing formula can be approximated in closed-form. A interesting result is that the derived equation is not only very simple in structure but also that it can be immediately inverted to obtain an...
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). The main paper conclusion is that the hedging widely (up to 10\% of the underlying risk) between the model, specially with …
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We compare single factor Markov-functional and multi factor market models for hedging performance of Bermudan swaptions …. We show that hedging performance of both models is comparable, thereby supporting the claim that Bermudan swaptions can …
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We show that the delta-hedged portfolio is not actually risk-free even for brownian underlying due to history dependence in the ammount of hold portfolio. We find this ammount explicitly, as a function of underlying price evolution and option price. This shows that even in the B-S world (perfect...
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