We address two apparent paradoxes of risk management: (1) managers hedge in order to avoid negative earnings surprises, yet they tend to hedge risks uninformative of the value of the company; and (2) the presence of options in managers' compensation distorts their incentive to hedge, inducing...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the basis risk and hedging efficiency of temperature‐indexed standardized weather derivatives in hedging weather risks in the US energy industry. Design/methodology/approach – Within the risk minimization framework, using power...

Dynamic enterprise risk management (ERM) entails holistic decision-making for critical corporate functions such as capital budgeting and risk management. The interplay across business divisions, however, is complicated due to their natural interactions through the shared and dependent risk...