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 …

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 …

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 …

diversification or the application of currency hedging instruments. This analysis is based on a unique dataset of 339 publicly listed … hedging instruments.In a second step, we go beyond existing research and distinguish between two separate dimensions of family … costs and thus leads to lower levels of business segment diversification and less currency hedging. In contrast family …

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 …

ranging from manufacturing to energy retailing, where risk averse fi rms decide on their hedging strategies before their … product market strategies. We fi nd that hedging modi es the pricing and production strategies of firms. This strategic effect … shareholders risk aversion. It has diametrically opposed impacts depending on the nature of product market competition: hedging …

compliance with the interest rate risk regulation. Although hedging motives dominate, we find selective hedging behavior in swap …

the interest rate risk regulation. Although hedging motives dominate, we find selective hedging behavior in swap use …