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Liquidity risk and the hedging role of options

✍ Scribed by Kit Pong Wong; Jianguo Xu

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 171 KB
Volume: 26
Category: Article
ISSN: 0270-7314
DOI: 10.1002/fut.20217

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✦ Synopsis

This study examines the impact of liquidity risk on the behavior of the competitive firm under price uncertainty in a dynamic two-period setting. The firm has access to unbiased one-period futures and option contracts in each period for hedging purposes. A liquidity constraint is imposed on the firm such that the firm is forced to terminate its risk management program in the second period whenever the net loss due to its first-period hedge position exceeds a predetermined threshold level. The imposition of the liquidity constraint on the firm is shown to create perverse incentives to output. Furthermore, the liquidity constrained firm is shown to purchase optimally the unbiased option contracts in the first period if its utility function is quadratic or prudent. This study thus offers a rationale for the hedging role of options when liquidity risk prevails.

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