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Article: A Multi-stage Financial Hedging Strategy for a Risk-averse Firm with Contingent Payment

TitleA Multi-stage Financial Hedging Strategy for a Risk-averse Firm with Contingent Payment
Authors
Li, QChu, LK
KeywordsCommodity
Financial hedging
Risk aversion
Volatile raw material price
Issue Date2015
PublisherInternational Association of Engineers. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.iaeng.org/IJAM/index.html
Citation
IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2015, v. 45 n. 1, p. 71-76 How to Cite?
AbstractThis paper aims at addressing the contingent sales price risk mitigation problem of a risk-averse firm which procures some kind of commodity from the spot market as the major input for production. The downstream buyer pays the firm following a contingent payment rule by which the exact amount depends on the input commodity spot price when the product is physically delivered. In order to reduce the volatility originating from the contingent payment, a multistage financial hedging strategy using commodity futures contracts is proposed. This approach allows the firm to adjust the position in commodity futures market dynamically. The close-form optimal hedging strategies are presented when the firm adopts the exponential or mean-variance utility to characterize the risk-averse attitude.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/208688
ISSN
1992-9978
2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.259

 

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dc.contributor.authorLi, Q-
dc.contributor.authorChu, LK-
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-18T09:04:35Z-
dc.date.available2015-03-18T09:04:35Z-
dc.date.issued2015-
dc.identifier.citationIAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2015, v. 45 n. 1, p. 71-76-
dc.identifier.issn1992-9978-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/208688-
dc.description.abstractThis paper aims at addressing the contingent sales price risk mitigation problem of a risk-averse firm which procures some kind of commodity from the spot market as the major input for production. The downstream buyer pays the firm following a contingent payment rule by which the exact amount depends on the input commodity spot price when the product is physically delivered. In order to reduce the volatility originating from the contingent payment, a multistage financial hedging strategy using commodity futures contracts is proposed. This approach allows the firm to adjust the position in commodity futures market dynamically. The close-form optimal hedging strategies are presented when the firm adopts the exponential or mean-variance utility to characterize the risk-averse attitude.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherInternational Association of Engineers. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.iaeng.org/IJAM/index.html-
dc.relation.ispartofIAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics-
dc.subjectCommodity-
dc.subjectFinancial hedging-
dc.subjectRisk aversion-
dc.subjectVolatile raw material price-
dc.titleA Multi-stage Financial Hedging Strategy for a Risk-averse Firm with Contingent Payment-
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dc.identifier.emailChu, LK: lkchu@hkucc.hku.hk-
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dc.identifier.volume45-
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dc.publisher.placeHong Kong-
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