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 …

speculators are capital constrained, and commodity producers have hedging demands for commodity futures. Increases (decreases) in … producers' hedging demand (speculators' risk-capacity) increase hedging costs via price-pressure on futures, reduce producers … associated with producer hedging demand rises when speculative activity reduces. We conclude that limits to financial arbitrage …

We study the implications of hedging for firm financing and investment. We do so using an extensive, hand …-collected dataset on corporate hedging activities. Hedging can lower the odds of negative firm realizations, reducing the expected costs … channels (cost of borrowing and investment restrictions) through which hedging affects corporate outcomes. The analysis we …

hedging approach can eliminate nearly 90 percent of the tracking error of more conventional inflation hedging strategies. We … also find that long-short positions in equities play a dominant role in the effective hedging of inflation risk over …