In the present paper a Barro-Gordon model of monetary policy with asymmetric information is considered. Since monetary policy formation is an ongoing process with repeated interactions between the central bank and the private sector, game-theoretic methodology is the appropriate tool to analyse...

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International firms have an incentive for risk management due to the enormous volatility of the floating foreign exchange rates. Often firms must cross hedge since in reality, not every currency is traded in a futures market. That is, the exporting firm uses futures whose value is highly...

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In recent years, managers have become increasingly aware of how their organizations can be affected by risks beyond their control. Financial futures are commonly used as hedging instruments by banking firms to insure against interest rate risk. The paper examines the volatility of bank interest...

In this study the hedging behaviour of a competitive risk-averse exporting firm is examined which produces under exchange rate uncertainty and which owns other sources of risky income. It is shown that the well-known separation theorem holds, when a forward market for foreign exchange is...