Title: Hedging with derivatives by Taiwanese listed non-financial companies

Authors: Shuofen Hsu, Po-Sheng Ko, Cheng-Chung Wu, Shuen-Ren Cheng, Yung-Sheng Chen

Addresses: Department of Risk Management and Insurance, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology. ' Department of Public Finance and Taxation, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences. ' Graduate Institute of Management, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology. ' Department of Management, Cheng Shiu University. ' Finance Bureau, Kaohsiung City Government

Abstract: This study treated 624 listed companies of non-finance and non-insurance industries in Taiwan from 2006 to 2007 as the samples. It probed into the financial derivatives undertaking of listed companies in Taiwan, and analysed the relation between financial derivatives hedging and corporate characteristics, as well as the factors influencing hedging decision-making and hedging instrument selection. This study is based on event history analysis to deal with the issues of censoring, ties and discrete variables that is superior to traditional regression models. The empirical analysis leads to the following results: companies with more growth investment opportunities, larger company scale and more financial crisis cost will tend to have financial derivatives hedging; as to the influence of industrial factors, electronics, electric machinery and machinery industry is more influential on hedging of financial derivatives undertaking than other industries.

Keywords: hedging decision making; hedging instrument selection; financial derivatives; event history analysis; Taiwan; non-finance firms; non-insurance firms; censoring; ties; discrete variables.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEF.2009.027847

International Journal of Electronic Finance, 2009 Vol.3 No.3, pp.211 - 234

Published online: 13 Aug 2009 *

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