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Hedging salmon price risk
Bloznelis, D. (2018). Hedging salmon price risk. Aquaculture Economics and Management 22(2): 168-191. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13657305.2017.1409292
In: Aquaculture Economics and Management. The International Association of Aquaculture Economics and Management (IAAEM): Brisbane. ISSN 1365-7305; e-ISSN 1551-8663, more
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    Futures; hedging; risk; salmon price; square loss; uncertainty

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Abstract
    Salmon price is highly volatile and hard to predict, which obscures planning decisions and raises financing costs for market participants. This study considers hedging the spot price uncertainty with salmon futures contracts. It uses a new framework of hedging under square loss, consisting of a new objective function, an optimal hedge ratio and a measure of hedging effectiveness. The new framework aims at minimizing the expected squared forecast error. It generalizes the classical minimum variance hedging as it relaxes the assumption of known expected prices. The salmon futures contracts deliver satisfactory hedging performance, albeit constrained by low liquidity. Therefore, I suggest holding the contract through maturity rather than closing the futures and the spot positions simultaneously. This strategy alleviates the liquidity issue and saves transaction costs. All things considered, hedging with salmon futures is a moderately effective way of handling the salmon price uncertainty.

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