This note analyzes export production in the presence of exchange rate uncertainty under mean-variance preferences. We present the elasticity of risk aversion, since this elasticity concept permits a distinct investigation of risk and expectation effects on exports. Counterintutitive results are...

Using a two-moment decision model, this paper analyzes corporate hedging behavior in the presence of differential versus unified income taxation. We start with the well-known result that risk-taking may increase when income tax rates increase and, therefore, the incentive for hedging decreases....