Many developing economies are heavily exposed to commodity markets, leaving them vulnerable to the vagaries of international commodity prices. This paper examines the use of commodity options-including plain vanilla, risk reversal, and barrier options-to hedge such risk. It then proposes the use...

Intro -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Market Practice -- III. Modeling a CCL -- IV. Replicating Portfolio -- V. Pricing -- A. Method 1 -- B. Method 2 -- VI. Hedging Issues -- VII. Concluding Remarks -- References.