Welfare Gains from Market Insurance : The Case of Mexican Oil Price Risk /

Over the past two decades, Mexico has hedged oil price risk through the purchase of put options. We examine the resulting welfare gains using a standard sovereign default model calibrated to Mexican data. We show that hedging increases welfare by reducing income volatility and reducing risk spreads...

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Tác giả chính: Ma, Chang
Tác giả khác: Valencia, Fabian
Định dạng: Tạp chí
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2018.
Loạt:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2018/035
Truy cập trực tuyến:Full text available on IMF