's cash-flows. This paper presents a case study approach demonstrating the hedging strategy employed by an international air … nonlinear hedging instruments by providing an in-depth analysis of the firm's hedging policy and its derivative usage. Using the …-tune its current hedging portfolio by adding tailored exotic options. Specifically, we develop an annual average-price option …

and financial hedging. We find that contrary to a rational and frictionless benchmark, performance in previous derivatives …

This paper considers the multiperiod hedging decision in a framework of mean-reverting spot prices and unbiased futures … markets. The task is to determine the optimal hedging path, i.e., the sequence of positions in futures contracts with the … objective of minimizing the variance of an uncertain future cash flow. The model is used to illustrate both hedging using a …

-linked securities. It considers the trade-offs an insurer or reinsurer faces in selecting a hedging strategy. We compare index and … indemnity-based hedging as alternative design choices and ask which is capable of creating the greater value for shareholders … problem yields a conflict of interest between shareholders and other stakeholders. Given the fact that hedging may improve the …

This article proposes a multi-currency cross-hedging strategy that minimizes the exchange risk. The use of derivatives … international activities. In particular, the reduction in the exchange risk borne through the use of natural multi-currency cross-hedging …

incentives to reduce volatility via hedging. We further characterize institutions' investments for pure play stocks across …

We consider modeling errors in the hedging of a portfolio composed from BBB-rated bonds. By doing this, we open a new … value of indexlinked credit derivatives is very limited: hedging portfolios including only T-bond futures can reduce the … hedging. This is consistent with the literature identifying an important non-default component within corporate bond spreads …