We reveal pitfalls in the hedging of insurance contracts with a minimum return guarantee on the underlying investment …, e.g.\ an external mutual fund. We analyze basis risk entailed by hedging the guarantee with a dynamic portfolio of proxy … risk. We demonstrate that both risks may be surprisingly high and show how the design of the contract and the hedging …

established that the gasoline supply in the United States (U.S.) must contain 10% ethanol. This work seeks to identify hedging … ratios using dynamic multivariate GARCH to best identify hedging opportunities in a newly developed futures market. The … ability for firms to hedge and regulators to supervise the ethanol futures market is crucial to both hedging potential losses …

that cash-flow hedging and capital investment by firms affects their future stock return distribution. Hedging by firms … investment counteracts these effects. Using hand-collected hedging data from energy-related firms, we find empirical results … consistent with the theoretical predictions. The pull-to-normality effect of hedging is stronger among firms with small size …

While homeownership provides consumption benefits, housing is risky. Using zip code housing returns, we document that …