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 …

optimal hedge ratio given the outcome of past hedging decisions and future expectations. The model implies that the optimal … 2015 and find strong evidence for the model's predictions. By adding a dynamic regret approach to the hedging and FX … literature we shed further light on the rationale behind selective hedging. …

the superior instrument regarding hedging systematic market component risk on single-name and portfolio level. Finally, an …

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 …

contracts. -- Spot Market Power ; Derivates Market ; Hedging …

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 …

We develop a flexible discrete-time hedging methodology that miminizes the expected value of any desired penalty … function of the hedging error within a general regime-switching framework. A numerical algorithm based on backward recursion … allows for the sequential construction of an optimal hedging strategy. Numerical experiments comparing this and other …

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 …

We examine the efficiency of hedging a credit derivative portfolio with a contrary position in a credit index in the …, the implied adjustments in capital charges could be reduced by the mentioned hedging strategy, and we show that there is … volatility are high. Increases in VIX, in the 10-year swap rate or in liquidity risk tend to decrease hedging efficiency …