Gestão do Risco de Preço de Café Arábica: uma Análise por meio do Comportamento da Base

Áther de Miranda Barros and Danilo R. D. Aguiar

Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural (RESR), 2005, vol. 43, issue 3

Abstract: This paper analyzes the basis behavior for arabica coffee, aiming to help the design of hedging strategies. It was verified that there are opportunities for both short and long hedging, but the opportunities for long hedging are fewer and less profitable than for short hedging. Besides, the futures contracts for delivering in March and May are the riskiest because of the high level of uncertainty just before the harvest season. It was verified also that basis strengthening is not associated to basis risk, since in most of the cases larger profitability is associated to lower risk, and vice-versa. Finally, the results showed that the most profitable short hedging strategies are the ones placed in the second semester of every year.

Keywords: Risk; and; Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.341965

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