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Risk management by firms has expanded substantially over the past two decades. This expansion has produced both a more sophisticated understanding of the benefits of an appropriate risk-management program as well as a material reduction in the cost of risk-management products. Much of the risk-management literature focuses on the use of derivatives—forwards, futures, swaps, and options—in hedging corporate exposures to interest rates, foreign exchange rates, and commodity prices. But the array of riskmanagement instruments is much broader. Both financially engineered hybrid instruments as well as engaging in specific real production activities represent important alternative methods of managing risk.
Much of my discussion focuses on the underlying theory of the mechanisms through which risk management can increase the value of the firm. This is a critical step in the design of an effective corporate risk-management strategy. For example, there is apparent disagreement on how one should measure a firm’s risk exposures: Should management focus on cash flows, firm value, or reported earnings? I would argue that
why a firm hedges has direct implications for how one should measure these corporate exposures as well as what instruments the firm should employ to hedge. Finally, I summarize the evidence on the use of risk-management instruments.


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