Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/104707 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
KIT Working Paper Series in Economics No. 65
Publisher: 
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON), Karlsruhe
Abstract: 
This paper studies the effects of hedge disclosure requirements on corporate risk management and product market competition. The analysis is based on a simple model of market entry and shows that incumbent firms engage in risk management when these activities remain unobserved by outsiders. The resulting equilibrium is desirable from a social standpoint. Financial markets are well informed and entry is efficient. However, potential attempts for more transparency by additional disclosure requirements introduce a commitment device that provides firms with incentives to distort risk management activities thereby influencing entrant beliefs. In equililibrium, firms engage in significant risk-taking. This behavior limits entry and adversely affects the nature of competition in industries. Our findings thus suggest that more disclosure on risk management may change risk management in socially undesirable ways.
Subjects: 
Risk Management
Hedge Disclosures
Market Entry
Signal Jamming
JEL: 
D82
G3
L1
M4
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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