new ways to banks to manage credit risk. In this paper we use a simple microeconomic model to show how a credit option of … hedging the Value at Risk is zero and the bank chooses to over-hedge. …

pressure in one option contract increases its price by an amount proportional to the variance of the unhedgeable part of the … option. Similarly, the demand pressure increases the price of any other option by an amount proportional to the covariance of … show that demand-pressure effects contribute to well-known option-pricing puzzles. Indeed, time-series tests show that …

This paper examines a path-dependent contingent claim called the window double barrier option, including standard but … also more exotic features such as combinations of single and double barriers. Price properties and hedging issues are …

new ways to banks to manage credit risk. In this paper we use a simple microeconomic model to show how a credit option of … hedging the Value at Risk is zero and the bank chooses to over-hedge. …

Using a two-moment decision model this paper analyzes corporate hedging behavior in the presence of unified and …, therefore, the incentive for hedging reduces. We demonstrate that pure hedging is differently affected by taxation than … speculative hedging is. Analysing tax-sensitivity of the corporate hedge shows that a higher risk in the first place may reduce …

uncertainty and hedging opportunities. Market transparency is modeled by means of the informational content of publicly observable …

hedging opportunity is introduced by a forward market where the foreign currency can be traded on. We investigate two settings …: First we assume that hedging and output decisions are taken simultaneously. We show that hedging is just done for risk … managing reasons as it is not possible to use hedging strategically. In this setting the well-known separation result of the …

exchange rate risk and hedging. Information is described in terms of market transparency, i.e., a publicly observable signal …