Risk Management with Supply Contracts

59 Pages Posted: 17 Apr 2017 Last revised: 2 Apr 2023

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Heitor Almeida

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Kristine Watson Hankins

University of Kentucky

Ryan Williams

Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL Research University; Enoda

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Date Written: April 2017

Abstract

Purchase obligations are forward contracts with suppliers and are used more broadly than traded commodity derivatives. This paper is the first to document that these contracts are a risk management tool and have a material impact on corporate hedging activity. Firms that expand their risk management options following the introduction of steel futures contracts substitute financial hedging for purchase obligations. Contracting frictions – such as bargaining power and settlement risk – as well as potential hold-up issues associated with relationship-specific investment affects the use of purchase obligations in the cross-section as well as how firms respond to the introduction of steel futures.

Suggested Citation

Almeida, Heitor and Hankins, Kristine Watson and Williams, Ryan, Risk Management with Supply Contracts (April 2017). NBER Working Paper No. w23331, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2953818

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