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The effects of disclosure policy on risk management incentives and market entry

This paper studies the effects of hedge disclosure requirements on corporate risk management and product market competition. The analysis is based on a simple model of market entry and shows that incumbent firms engage in risk management when these activities remain unobserved by outsiders. The resulting equilibrium is desirable from a social standpoint. Financial markets are well informed and entry is efficient. However, potential attempts for more transparency by additional disclosure requirements introduce a commitment device that provides firms with incentives to distort risk management activities thereby influencing entrant beliefs. In equililibrium, firms engage in significant risk-taking. This behavior limits entry and adversely affects the nature of competition in industries. Our findings thus suggest that more disclosure on risk management may change risk management in socially undesirable ways.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: KIT Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 65

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Thema
Risk Management
Hedge Disclosures
Market Entry
Signal Jamming

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hoang, Daniel
Ruckes, Martin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON)
(wo)
Karlsruhe
(wann)
2014

DOI
doi:10.5445/IR/1000044664
Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:swb:90-446642
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hoang, Daniel
  • Ruckes, Martin
  • Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre (ECON)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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