This paper is the first to study the hedging of price risk with uncertain payment dates, a frequent problem in practice …. It derives a variance-minimizing hedging strategy for two settings, the first employing linear contracts with different …

This paper investigates corporate hedging under regret aversion. Regret-averse firms try to avoid deviations of their … hedging policy from the ex post best policy, an intuitive consideration if one has to justify one's decisions afterward. The … aversion reduces the hedging of price risk to avoid large regret in the case of increasing prices. The results show that regret …

hedge ratio. Extensive out-of-sample tests give insights in the practice of hedging various cryptos and crypto indices … dependence structures between BTC-not-involved assets and the futures. As a consequence, results of hedging other assets and …

We study how risk management through hedging impacts firms and competition among firms in the life insurance industry … face costly external finance increase hedging after staggered state-level financial reform that reduces the costs of … hedging. Post reform impacted firms have lower risk and fewer negative income shocks. Product market competition is also …