IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/bis/biswps/109.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Optimal dynamic hedging using futures under a borrowing constraint

Author

Listed:
  • Akash Deep

    (Harvard University - John F. Kennedy School of Government)

Abstract

Both financial and non-financial firms routinely implement hedging policies to mitigate their exposure to changes in asset prices. However, while these policies may perform satisfactorily in the limited sense of hedging the exposure under consideration, they might increase the overall likelihood of financial distress due to the liquidity risks that they create. This paper examines the case of hedging price risk using derivative contracts that are marked to market (such as futures contracts) and hence subject to margin calls. It is shown that liquidity risk, stemming from the need to meet margin calls on the futures position, can be a significant source of risk and can even lead to financial distress even though the firm remains "hedged". Such risks should therefore be taken into account in the formulation of an optimal hedging policy. This paper derives the dynamic hedging strategy of a firm that uses futures contracts to hedge a spot market exposure. The risk emanating from the margin requirement on futures contracts is incorporated into the hedging decision by restricting the borrowing capacity of the firm. It is shown that this leads to a substantial reduction in the firm's optimal hedge, especially if the hedging horizon is long. The results provide theoretical support for the low level of hedging observed empirically.

Suggested Citation

  • Akash Deep, 2002. "Optimal dynamic hedging using futures under a borrowing constraint," BIS Working Papers 109, Bank for International Settlements.
    • Handle: RePEc:bis:biswps:109
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.bis.org/publ/work109.pdf
    File Function: Full PDF document
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://www.bis.org/publ/work109.htm
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

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


    Cited by:

    1. Serge Jeanneau & Marian Micu, 2002. "Determinants of international bank lending to emerging market countries," BIS Working Papers 112, Bank for International Settlements.
    2. Gert Schnabel, 2002. "Output trends and Okun's law," BIS Working Papers 111, Bank for International Settlements.
    3. Shi, Ruoding & Isengildina Massa, Olga, 2022. "Costs of Futures Hedging in Corn and Soybean Markets," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 47(2), May.
    4. Ankirchner, Stefan & Schneider, Judith C. & Schweizer, Nikolaus, 2014. "Cross-hedging minimum return guarantees: Basis and liquidity risks," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 41(C), pages 93-109.
    5. Dömötör, Barbara, 2017. "Optimal hedge ratio in a biased forward market under liquidity constraints," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 21(C), pages 259-263.
    6. Shi, Ruoding & Isengildina Massa, Olga, 2018. "Double-Edged Sword: Liquidity Implications of Futures Hedging," 2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. 274106, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    7. Galvani, Valentina & Plourde, André, 2013. "Spanning with futures contracts," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 53(1), pages 61-72.

    More about this item

    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:bis:biswps:109. 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.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using 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: Martin Fessler (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/bisssch.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.