Hedging downside risk: futures vs. options
โ Scribed by Donald Lien; Yiu Kuen Tse
- Book ID
- 114344187
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 100 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1059-0560
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We would like to compare futures with options, unfortunately we do not have an option contract that matches the time period of our study. SIMEX has an option on the Nikkei 225 with a much shorter history. Moreover, even if such a contract exists, it would be very thin (as we have experienced in comp
## Abstract This paper analyzes the hedging decisions for firms facing price and basis risk. Two conditions assumed in most models on optimal hedging are relaxed. Hence, (i) the spot price is not necessarily linear in both the settlement price and the basis risk and (ii) futures contracts and optio