beginnings of real estate derivative markets is the advance in home price index construction methods, notably the repeat sales …

This paper is a comparative study of the responses to the 1995 Wharton School survey of derivative usage among US non … derivative usage is most common, followed closely by interest rate derivatives, with commodity derivatives a distant third. In … contrast to the similarities, firms in the two countries differ notably on issues such as the primary goal of hedging, their …

easily hedge the electricity price through derivative markets. Capital market liquidity and balance sheet liquidity appear to … factor for firms' liquidity management. One industry for which price risk can be measured is the electricity producing … industry. We use data on hourly electricity prices in 41 markets to measure fluctuations in output prices and information on …

We study a firm that justifies its novel use of equity derivatives as a cash-flow hedging strategy. Our purpose is to … hedging concepts articulated by Froot, Scharfstein and Stein (1993). In applying the theory to practice, there are lessons for …

We study how risk management through hedging impacts firms and competition among firms in the life insurance industry … face costly external finance increase hedging after staggered state-level financial reform that reduces the costs of … hedging. Post reform impacted firms have lower risk and fewer negative income shocks. Product market competition is also …

moneyness of the option as a function of the asset's distribution, the risk-free rate, and the VaR hedging period. We find that … the optimal strike of the put is independent of the level of expense the institution is willing to incur for its hedging … hedging cost or the increased cost to achieve a given VaR, are economically significant. Comparative static results show that …

, focusing on short-term gains but risking further losses if rates rose. Instead of hedging the market value risk of bank asset …