We show that both return measurement horizon and model specification have noticeable impacts on estimates of exposure from equity prices for U.S. firms. While increases in the return horizon leads to increases in the precision of the estimates, this effect is less significant than the impact of...

This is the third in a series of surveys on financial risk management practice and derivatives use by non-financial corporations in the United States undertaken by the Wharton School. This 1998 survey, written in partnership again with CIBC World Markets, extends the previous two surveys by...

In November, 1994, the Weiss Center for International Financial Research of the Wharton School undertook its first survey of derivatives and risk management practice by non-financial corporations in the United States. This 1995 survey, sponsored by CIBC Wood Gundy, is more detailed than the 1994...