Nuka, Lantara I Wayan; Atsushi, Takao - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance 8 (2013) 1, pp. 57-81
This paper examines the firm-specific factors determining the use of derivatives by the sample of Japanese life and non-life Japanese insurance companies during the period of 2001–2011. We find that the participation rate for the use of derivatives by insurance companies in Japan is 73.2%,...