IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/rom/econmn/v15y2012i2p436-445.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Short Term Hedging Using Futures Contracts

Author

Listed:
  • Maria CARACOTA DIMITRIU

    (The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)

  • Ioana – Diana PAUN

    (The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania)

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the effectiveness of risk management portfolio using futures contracts to achieve hedging. The risk can be minimized once measured, and the traditional tool of market risk management is hedging. The objective is to identify the optimum position to minimize the variation in a contract concluded now. Clearly hedging portfolio will reduce not only risk but also profitability. In conclusion hedging aims risk management, no additional gain. Portfolio manager will have the opportunity to carefully consider the relationship between risk and return in order to act according to his profile and targeted results.

Suggested Citation

  • Maria CARACOTA DIMITRIU & Ioana – Diana PAUN, 2012. "Short Term Hedging Using Futures Contracts," Economia. Seria Management, Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 15(2), pages 436-445, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:rom:econmn:v:15:y:2012:i:2:p:436-445
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.management.ase.ro/reveconomia/2012-2/17.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Darren Butterworth & Phil Holmes, 2000. "Mispricing in stock index futures contracts: evidence for the FTSE 100 and FTSE mid 250 contracts," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(12), pages 795-801.
    2. Anil K. Bera & Philip Garcia & Jae-Sun Roh, 1997. "Estimation of Time-Varying Hedge Ratios for Corn and Soybeans: BGARCH and Random Coefficient Approaches," Finance 9712007, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Chang, Jack S. K. & Shanker, Latha, 1987. "A Risk-Return Measure of Hedging Effectiveness: A Comment," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 22(3), pages 373-376, September.
    4. Darren Butterworth & Phil Holmes, 2000. "Ex Ante Hedging Effectiveness of UK Stock Index Futures Contracts: Evidence for the FTSE 100 and FTSE Mid 250 Contracts," European Financial Management, European Financial Management Association, vol. 6(4), pages 441-457, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Behrouz LariSemnani & Reihaneh Benesloo, 2015. "Ranking of Hedging Tools from the Perspective of Tehran Stock Exchange Investors," Asian Economic and Financial Review, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 5(7), pages 926-940, July.
    2. Lerskullawat, Polwat, 2019. "Hedging Effectiveness on the Thailand Futures Exchange Market," Asian Journal of Applied Economics, Kasetsart University, Center for Applied Economics Research, vol. 26(2), December.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Stavros Degiannakis & Christos Floros, 2010. "Hedge Ratios in South African Stock Index Futures," Journal of Emerging Market Finance, Institute for Financial Management and Research, vol. 9(3), pages 285-304, December.
    2. Patrick McGlenchy & Paul Kofman, 2004. "Structurally Sound Dynamic Index Futures Hedging," Econometric Society 2004 Australasian Meetings 80, Econometric Society.
    3. Jahangir Sultan & Mohammad Hasan, 2008. "The effectiveness of dynamic hedging: evidence from selected European stock index futures," The European Journal of Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(6), pages 469-488.
    4. Edyta Marcinkiewicz, 2016. "Short Sale and Index Futures Mispricing: Evidence from the Warsaw Stock Exchange," Prague Economic Papers, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2016(5), pages 547-559.
    5. Ryu, Doojin & Ryu, Doowon & Yang, Heejin, 2023. "Investor sentiment and futures market mispricing," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 58(PC).
    6. Amir Alizadeh & Manolis Kavussanos & David Menachof, 2004. "Hedging against bunker price fluctuations using petroleum futures contracts: constant versus time-varying hedge ratios," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(12), pages 1337-1353.
    7. Luc Bauwens & Sébastien Laurent & Jeroen V. K. Rombouts, 2006. "Multivariate GARCH models: a survey," Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 21(1), pages 79-109, January.
    8. Choudhry, Taufiq, 2009. "Short-run deviations and time-varying hedge ratios: Evidence from agricultural futures markets," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 18(1-2), pages 58-65, March.
    9. Bessler, Wolfgang & Leonhardt, Alexander & Wolff, Dominik, 2016. "Analyzing hedging strategies for fixed income portfolios: A Bayesian approach for model selection," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 46(C), pages 239-256.
    10. Chiu, Wan-Yi, 2013. "A simple test of optimal hedging policy," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 83(4), pages 1062-1070.
    11. Jian Yang & Titus Awokuse, 2003. "Asset storability and hedging effectiveness in commodity futures markets," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 10(8), pages 487-491.
    12. Y. K. Tse & Albert K. C. Tsui, 2000. "A Multivariate GARCH Model with Time-Varying correlations," Econometrics 0004010, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    13. Aglasan, Serkan & Wu, Shenan & Goodwin, Barry K., 2021. "Cross-hedging with Agricultural Commodities: A Copula-GARCH Approach," 2021 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Austin, Texas 313960, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    14. Mark R. Manfredo & Raymond M. Leuthold, 2001. "Market risk and the cattle feeding margin: An application of Value-at-Risk," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(3), pages 333-353.
    15. Robert F. Engle, 2016. "Dynamic Conditional Beta," Journal of Financial Econometrics, Oxford University Press, vol. 14(4), pages 643-667.
    16. de Jong, A. & de Roon, F.A. & Veld, C.H., 1995. "An empirical analysis of the hedging effectiveness of currency futures," Discussion Paper 1995-119, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research.
    17. Degiannakis, Stavros & Xekalaki, Evdokia, 2004. "Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (ARCH) Models: A Review," MPRA Paper 80487, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    18. Sharma, Udayan & Karmakar, Madhusudan, 2023. "Measuring minimum variance hedging effectiveness: Traditional vs. sophisticated models," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 87(C).
    19. Ubukata, Masato & Watanabe, Toshiaki, 2015. "Evaluating the performance of futures hedging using multivariate realized volatility," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier, vol. 38(C), pages 148-171.
    20. Wan-Yi Chiu, 2021. "Mean-variance hedging in the presence of estimation risk," Review of Derivatives Research, Springer, vol. 24(3), pages 221-241, October.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Futures contracts; derivatives; hedging; OLS.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • C12 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Hypothesis Testing: General
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rom:econmn:v:15:y:2012:i:2:p:436-445. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Ciocoiu Nadia Carmen (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/mnasero.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.