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Mitigating Vulnerability to Oil Price Risk— Applicability of Risk Models to Pakistan's Energy Problem
2014
Pakistan Development Review
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The paper examines the prospects of reducing the price risk of Pakistan's oil imports through hedging in the oil futures market. The paper evaluates the ex-ante cross hedge strategies over the 1990–2013 period using 1–4 months futures NYMEX in order to see how to reduce price risk? Our results indicate that in all cases except one, ex-ante hedging would have been effective in reducing price risk. We provide quantitative estimates of the return/risk tradeoffs from hedging Pakistan's oil imports,
doi:10.30541/v53i3pp.293-308
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