Financial hedging / Patrick N. Catlere, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Catlere, Patrick N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial futures.

Hedging (Finance).

Risk management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Financial hedging refers to taking out investments in order to reduce or cancel the risk in another investment. This book looks at the homogeneous and non-homogeneous semi-Markov backward credit risk migration models.

Contents:

""Financial Hedging""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Research and Review Studies""; ""Homogeneous and Non-homogeneous Semi-markov Backward Credit Risk Migration Models""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Discrete Time Semi-markov Processes""; ""3. Discrete Time Backward Semi-markov Processes""; ""4. Reliability Models""; ""5. Credit Risk Problem""; ""6. Results from Homogeous Credit Risk Model""; ""7. Results from Non Homogeous Credit Risk Model""; ""References""; ""Towards an Integrated Theory of Corporate Hedging and Capital Structure Decisions""; ""Abstract""; ""I. Introduction""

""II. Financial Distress Costs and Corporate Taxes Constitute an Optimal Degree of Leverage""""III. Corporate Hedging Benefits Shareholders by Reducing Financial Distress Costs and Taxes""; ""IV. Corporate Hedging Benefits Shareholders by Raising Optimal Leverage""; ""V. Trading-off the Costs and Benefits of Corporate Hedging: Who Hedges More?""; ""VI. Case Study: Hewlett-Packard vs. Safeway""; ""VII. Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Probability Weighting in Futures Hedging""; ""Abstract""; ""Introduction""; ""Prospect Theory""; ""The Weighting Function""

""Parameters of the Weighting Function""""Empirical Evidence""; ""Research Method""; ""Numerical Simulation""; ""Results""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Hedging Effectiveness with S&P500 Index Futures under Different Volatility Regimes""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Hedging Strategy - Minimum Variance Hedge Ratio""; ""3. Implementation of MVHR""; ""4. Data and Empirical Results""; ""5. Conclusion""; ""References""; ""American and European Portfolio Selection Strategies: The Markovian Approach""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Modeling Markov Processes""

""3. The Portfolio Selection Problem""""4. A First Ex-Post Empirical Comparison among Dynamic Portfolio Strategies""; ""5. Conclusion""; ""6. Appendix: Some Possible Improvements""; ""Acknowledgement""; ""References""; ""Hedging, Liquidity, and the Multinational Firm under Exchange Rate Uncertainty""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The Model""; ""3. Optimal Hedging and Sales Decisions""; ""4. Hedging Role of Futures Spreads""; ""5. Hedging Role of Options""; ""6. Conclusions""; ""References""; ""Cross-Hedging for the Multinational Firm under Exchange Rate Uncertainty""; ""Abstract""

""1. Introduction""""2. The Model""; ""3. The Benchmark Case of Perfect Hedging""; ""4. Optimal Decisions under Cross-Hedging""; ""5. Hedging Role of Options""; ""6. Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Option Pricing and Hedging in the Presence of Transaction Costs and Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations""; ""Abstract""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Modelling the Transaction Costs""; ""3. The Leland's Approach to Option Pricing and Hedging""; ""4. Utility-Based Option Pricing and Hedging""; ""5. Conclusion""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""References""; ""Short Communications""

""Time Horizon-Specific Hedging in Commodity Markets""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60876-670-5

OCLC:

844349062