Hedging And Coordinated Risk Management: Evidence From Thrift Conversions  

Oleh:

Schrand, Catherine M. ; Unal, Haluk

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Finance (EBSCO) vol. 53 no. 3 (Jun. 1998), page 979-1013.
Topik: Hedging; Coordinated Risk Management; the development of conversion
Fulltext: p 979.pdf (160.88KB)

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We provide an explanation for hedging as a means of allocating rather than reducing risk. We argue that when increases in total risk are costly, firms optimally allocate risk by reducing ~increasing! exposure to risks that provide zero ~positive! economic rents. Our evidence shows that mutual thrifts that convert to stock institutions increase total risk following conversion, consistent with their increased abilities and incentives for risk taking. They achieve this increase by hedging interestrate risk and increasing credit risk. We provide some evidence that risk-management activities are related to growth capacity and management compensation structure attained at conversion.

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