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Futures Versus Share Contracting As Means Of Diversifing Output Risk

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  • HIRSHLEIFER, D.
  • SUBRAHMANYAM, A.

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Two means by which commodity producers can reduce their exposure to quantity risk are share contracting and futures hedging. This paper explains the coexistence of these arrangements by showing that these will normally be complementary means of transferring risk. Share contracting by a purchaser with many producers can help diversify imperfectly correlated quantity risks. Futures contracts, on the other hand, hedge the systematic but not the idiosyncratic components of output risk. Thus, futures hedging helps to ameliorate the main disadvantage of multiple share contracting, an excessive loading of systematic risk on the purchaser. Copyright 1993 by Royal Economic Society.
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  • Hirshleifer, D. & Subrahmanyam, A., 1990. "Futures Versus Share Contracting As Means Of Diversifing Output Risk," Papers fb-_90-07, Columbia - Graduate School of Business.
    • Handle: RePEc:fth:colubu:fb-_90-07
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    1. Lim, Sonya Seongyeon & Wang, Heli, 2007. "The effect of financial hedging on the incentives for corporate diversification: The role of stakeholder firm-specific investments," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 62(4), pages 640-656, April.
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    5. Valeria Di Cosmo & Elisa Trujillo-Baute, 2018. "From Forward to Spot Prices: Producers, Retailers and Loss Averse Consumers in Electricity Markets," Working Papers 2018.31, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
    6. Longstaff, Francis & Wang, Ashley, 2002. "Electricity Forward Prices: A High-Frequency Empirical Analysis," University of California at Los Angeles, Anderson Graduate School of Management qt7mh2m2bt, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA.
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    9. Méndez Parra, Maximiliano, 2015. "Futures prices, trade and domestic supply of agricultural commodities," Economics PhD Theses 0115, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.

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