Potential demand for hedging by Australian wheat producers

Phillip Simmons () and Alicia Rambaldi ()

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1997, vol. 41, issue 2, 12

Abstract: The potential for hedging Australian wheat with the new Sydney Futures Exchange wheat contract is examined using a theoretical hedging model parametised from previous studies. The optimal hedging ratio for an `average' wheat farmer was found to be zero under reasonable assumptions about transaction costs and based on previously published measures of risk aversion. The estimated optimal hedging ratios were found by simulation to be quite sensitive to assumptions about the degree of risk aversion. If farmers are significantly more risk averse than is currently believed, then there is likely to be an active interest in the new futures market.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Marketing; Risk and Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.118012

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