We use the industrial organization approach to the microeconomics of banking, augmented by uncertainty and risk aversion, to examine credit derivatives and macro derivatives as instruments to hedge credit risk for a large commercial bank. In a partial-analytic framework we distinguish between...

This note studies the risk-management decisions of a risk-averse farmer. The farmer faces multiple sources of price uncertainty. He sells commodities to two markets at two prices, but only one of these markets has a futures market. We show that the farmer's optimal commodity futures market...

We examine the effects of ex post revelation of information about the risk type or the risk-reducing behavior of insureds in automobile insurance markets both for perfect competition and for monopoly. Specifically, we assume that insurers can offer a contract with information revelation ex post,...

Mit Individualdaten von 764 bayerischen Genossenschaftsbanken aus dem Jahr 1992 werden Translog-Kostenfunktionen mit drei Inputs und sechs Outputs für das Quartil mit den niedrigsten und jenes mit den höchsten Kosten pro DM Bilanzsumme geschätzt. Hieraus lassen sich Maße für eine exogene,...