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Project finance investments are highly exposed to inflation risk, especially if they are financed by foreign debt and located in developing countries with volatile currencies. In Public Private Partnerships, inflation risk may be mostly born by the private counterpart and its backing lenders,...
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forecastable component in global factor returns. The hedging strategy outperforms leading alternative approaches to currency … hedging across a large set of out-of-sample performance metrics. Moreover, we find that exploiting currency return …
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Operational hedging techniques such as risk sharing, currency collars, and a hybrid arrangement can be used when … transactions are subject to unexpected changes in the nominal exchange rate. These hedging devices utilise a risk sharing parameter …
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achieved from the existence of risk sharing markets are the separationtheorem and the and full-hedging theorem. This note … examines the optimalproduction for exports and hedging decisions of a risk-averse rm facing bothhedgeable exchange rate risk … and non-hedgeable (background) risk. While theseparation property holds in this context, the full-hedging property does …
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Cross hedging price risk in an incomplete financial market creates basis risk. We propose a new way of modeling basis … necessary and sufficient condition for underhedging in an unbiased market. Using the example of cross hedging jet fuel price … cross hedges differ significantly from those derived under the traditional additive cross hedging model …
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This paper investigates the determinants of hedging strategy choice. We introduce different dynamic discrete choice … frameworks with random effects to mitigate unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence. Using a new dataset on the hedging … activities of 150 US oil and gas producers, we find strong evidence that hedging strategy is influenced by investment …
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market factors, its volatility and the quality of hedging. The wrong way risk is most significant for exposures highly … CVA hedging strategy. While the benefits from hedging are always magnified in the situation of the wrong way risk, the …
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We propose a maximum-expected utility hedging model with futures where cash and futures returns follow a bivariate skew … normality, skewness has a material impact when the agent is significantly risk averse. Pure hedging demand is either greater or … pure hedging and minimum-variance demand increases with basis risk, i.e. the imperfect correlation between cash and futures …
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successful in reducing capital requirements. Indeed the proposed local hedging scheme benefits from a higher exposure to equity …
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cause dynamic hedging to fail. As an alternative, we investigate a quasi-static hedge of Parisian options under a more … contingent claims which are statically hedged. Through numerical experiments, we show the effectiveness of the suggested hedging …
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