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Option prices provide valuable information on market expectations. This paper attempts to extract market expectations, as conveyed by an implied risk-neutral probability distribution, from option prices for the dollar-euro exchange rate. Returns' volatilities are inferred from observed and...
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Revenue insurance with shallow loss protection for farmers has been introduced recently. A common attribute of most shallow loss proposals is that they would be area-revenue triggered. The impact on optimal hedge ratios of combining these shallow loss insurance proposals with deep loss...
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-sample and out-of-sample hedging effectiveness estimators. Through mathematical and simulation analysis we determine the …Hedging effectiveness is the proportion of price risk removed through hedging. Empirical hedging studies typically … estimate a set of risk minimizing hedge ratios, estimate the hedging effectiveness statistic, apply the estimated hedge ratios …
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Alternative approaches to hedging swaptions are explored and tested by simulation. Hedging methods implied by the Balck … simulation is undertaken within the LIBOR model framework for a range of swaptions and volatility structures. Despite … distributions for the hedging profit and loss - even at high rehedging frequencies. This result demonstrates the robustness of the …
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to achieve a visualization of hidden risks in complex structured products, to perform real-time graphical dynamic hedging …
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The demand for hedging against price uncertainty in the presence of crop yield and revenue insurance contracts is … the characterization of the first-best hedging strategy in the expected utility framework. It is then illustrated using …
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This study focuses on hedging effectiveness defined as the proportionate price risk reduction created by hedging. By … mathematical and simulation analysis we determine the following: (a) the regression R2 in the hedge ratio regression will generally … overstate the amount of price risk reduction that can be achieved by hedging, (b) the properly computed hedging effectiveness in …
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The US-Dollar has depreciated noticeably since the beginning of the year 2006. This depreciation changes the competitiveness of nations and corporations. This paper briefly presents the related exchange rate risks. Subsequently, the operating exposure is discussed, as this is the relevant...
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Combinations of futures and options contracts on milk and feed were simulated to determine their influence on a representative dairy farm’s ability to meet cash flow requirements and reduce the variance of net income. Compared with the reference scenario of selling milk and procuring...
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