Finance theory does not provide a comprehensive framework for explaining risk management within the imperfect financial … corporate hedging: equity value maximising strategies and strategies determined by managerial risk aversion. The first category … distress and costs of external finance or to replace home-made hedging by shareholders. The second category considers that …

additional delivery risk on hedgers. This paper derives the optimal production and futures hedging strategy for a risk …

currency hedging strategies, for a series of 7 models,using Bayesian inference and decision analysis. The models differ in the … comparethe hedging decisions and financial returns and utilities as they result from the modellingassumptions and the attitudes …

This paper studies the impact of counter-party default risk of forward contracts on a firm's production and hedging …

für derivative Finanzinstrumente, ihre Bewertung und ihren Ausweis im Jahresabschluss schaffen wollten, zeigt der hier … Mittel zur Risikoabsicherung, das so genannte "Hedging". Fallbeispiele und zahlreiche Abbildungen veranschaulichen die z. T … Risikomanagement. …

Using a two-moment decision model this paper analyzes corporate hedging behavior in the presence of unified and …, therefore, the incentive for hedging reduces. We demonstrate that pure hedging is differently affected by taxation than … speculative hedging is. Analysing tax-sensitivity of the corporate hedge shows that a higher risk in the first place may reduce …

. We find that, depending on whether futures contracts are used for risk reduction (i.e., hedging) or risk taking (i …

This paper analyzes optimal hedging of a tradable risk (e.g. price risk or exchange rate risk) with forward contracts … noise, cross hedging and speculating on the real risk premium are conflicting objectives; the level of relative risk …

and the double hedging theorems are derived. The behavior of the same firm with and without complete markets is compared …

Surveys of corporate risk management document that selective hedging, where managers incorporate their market views … into firms' hedging programs, is widespread in the U.S. and other countries. Stulz (1996) argues that selective hedging … strength to withstand the additional risk from market timing. We study the practice of selective hedging in a 10-year sample of …