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Article: Production and Hedging under State-Dependent Preferences and Background Risk
Title | Production and Hedging under State-Dependent Preferences and Background Risk |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Futures Options Production State-dependent preferences |
Issue Date | 2017 |
Publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/iref |
Citation | International Review of Economics & Finance, 2017, v. 51, p. 527-534 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper examines the behavior of the competitive firm that possesses state-dependent preferences and faces state-dependent price and background risk. While the background risk is neither hedgeable nor insurable, the firm has access to fairly priced futures and option contracts to hedge against the price risk. We show that the separation theorem holds in that the firm's optimal output level depends neither on the risk attitude of the firm nor on the incident to the underlying uncertainty. However, hedging does not always enhance production. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions under which the full-hedging theorem holds and thus options are not used. When these conditions are violated, we show that the firm optimally uses options to better cope with the complicated state-dependence structure between risk and preferences, thereby rendering options a hedging role over and above that of futures. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/243216 |
ISSN | 2021 Impact Factor: 3.399 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.781 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Wong, KP | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-25T02:51:45Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-08-25T02:51:45Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | International Review of Economics & Finance, 2017, v. 51, p. 527-534 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1059-0560 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/243216 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the behavior of the competitive firm that possesses state-dependent preferences and faces state-dependent price and background risk. While the background risk is neither hedgeable nor insurable, the firm has access to fairly priced futures and option contracts to hedge against the price risk. We show that the separation theorem holds in that the firm's optimal output level depends neither on the risk attitude of the firm nor on the incident to the underlying uncertainty. However, hedging does not always enhance production. We derive necessary and sufficient conditions under which the full-hedging theorem holds and thus options are not used. When these conditions are violated, we show that the firm optimally uses options to better cope with the complicated state-dependence structure between risk and preferences, thereby rendering options a hedging role over and above that of futures. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/iref | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Review of Economics & Finance | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | Futures | - |
dc.subject | Options | - |
dc.subject | Production | - |
dc.subject | State-dependent preferences | - |
dc.title | Production and Hedging under State-Dependent Preferences and Background Risk | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Wong, KP: kpwong@econ.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Wong, KP=rp01112 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.iref.2017.07.026 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85026368528 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 274242 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 51 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 527 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 534 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000413129500034 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1059-0560 | - |