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The ongoing economic crisis has profoundly changed the industry of the asset management, by putting risk management at the heart of most investment processes. This new risk-based investment style does not rely on returns forecasts and is therefore assumed to be more robust. In 2011, it has...
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This paper estimates the foreign exchange rate exposure of 6,917 U.S. nonfinancial firms on the basis of stock prices and corporate cash flows. The results show that several firms are significantly exposed to at least one of the foreign exchange rates Canadian Dollar, Japanese Yen and Euro, and...
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The rationales for corporate risk management are examined from the point of view of the theory of finance and of key … stakeholder groups’ interests. A study of the use of hedging instruments in 161 Polish non-financial listed companies is then … determine relationships between the hedging decision and financial standing of companies. However, company size is proved to be …
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management practices such as enterprise risk management. Based on modern financial theory’s assumption that markets are perfectly …
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People by and large tend to postpone their present consumption for numerous reasons. This postponement of consumption leaves them with surplus money to invest for future consumption. Amongst the number of alternatives avenues present for such investments, gold too tends to be one of them. People...
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Complexity theory is designed to bring order out of a rough-and- tumble world, something close to every insurance … . But in the real world it's just what its name says-a theory. It may help us understand why things go one way or another …
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could account for the mixed evidence in the literature on the effect of hedging on firm value. …
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Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) is an increasingly popular subject of research which emphasizes the goals of achieving improved supply chain robustness through development of design and operational strategies. Disruption management is one aspect of SCRM which examines the ability of the...
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results; however, geographically clustered occupations seem more “at-risk,” after accounting for sectoral diversification. …
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high barriers of entry for new firms. This leads to less sectoral diversification and so, in an uncertain environment, to … democracy and industrial diversification. …
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