The financial crisis has raised concerns throughout the industry on the possibility that hedging credit valuation … products break down. So, we provide an estimation of the basis risk that arises when hedging credit portfolios with different …

The paper examines the performance of various hedging strategies using Options in the Indian options market. The entire … spectrum of option hedging strategies are divided into two categories: 1) Strategies with limited losses and unlimited gains; 2 …

We investigate the effect of including variance derivatives as calibration and hedging instruments for pricing and … hedging exotic structures. This is studied empirically using market data for SPX and VIX derivatives applied in a stochastic …

commodities, investors hedge commodity price risk directly in the futures market, primarily via commodity index investments … market investors increasingly participate in commodity futures markets, stock market risk is also priced in the cross …-section of commodity futures returns …

Ex-ante estimates of the volatility premium embedded in VIX futures, known as the VIX premium, fall or stay flat when …-post returns to VIX futures with a coefficient near one, and 2) Falling ex-ante premiums predict increasing ex-post market and … investment risk, creating profitable trading opportunities. Falling hedging demand helps explain this behavior, as premiums and …

, the implied adjustments in capital charges could be reduced by hedging a credit derivative portfolio with a contrary …

futures contracts. We find that a small set of futures traded on major international exchanges are sufficient only for hedging … crucial for hedging their macroeconomic risks. The hedging is more effective in countries where export/import depends less on …

strategy? Most studies identify four categories of tail risk management strategy: option-based hedging, asset allocation … and that define good tail risk management. Finally, we provide a comprehensive analysis of option-based tail hedging … strategies. The concepts of defensive, offensive, active and indirect tail hedging are discussed at length and examples of each …