In this note economic integration is viewed as a situation where countries within a union coordinate their industrial policies. We demonstrate that greater regional policy coordination between countries may induce more specialization instead of the intended diversification in interregional...

We use the industrial organization approach to the microeconomics of banking, augmented by uncertainty and risk aversion, to examine credit derivatives and macro derivatives as instruments to hedge credit risk for a large commercial bank. In a partial-analytic framework we distinguish between...

This note examines a situation in which hedging may actually increase a bank's exposure to risk. Especially in the case of financial institutions, there exists only a limited number of delivery dates for each futures contract and the delivery dates may not coincide with it the planning horizon...

This paper uses the expected utility framework to examine the optimal hedging decision for commodities with mean reverting price processes. The derived results show that when commodity prices follow a mean reverting process, the optimal hedge ratio differs significantly from the classical...