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Financial constraints, competition and hedging in industry equilibrium

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>10/2007
<mark>Journal</mark>Journal of Finance
Issue number5
Volume62
Number of pages29
Pages (from-to)2445-2473
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date4/09/07
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We analyze the hedging decisions of firms, within an equilibrium setting that allows us to examine how a firm's hedging choice depends on the hedging choices of its competitors. Within this equilibrium some firms hedge while others do not, even though all firms are ex ante identical. The fraction of firms that hedge depends on industry characteristics, such as the number of firms in the industry, the elasticity of demand, and the convexity of production costs. Consistent with prior empirical findings, the model predicts that there is more heterogeneity in the decision to hedge in the most competitive industries.