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risk management measures—financial and operational hedging, the choice of invoice currency and the price revision strategy … by both financial and operational hedging. Third, yen invoicing reduces foreign exchange exposure. These findings …
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Conventional wisdom holds that conservative investors should avoid exposure to foreign currency risk. Even if they hold foreign equities, they should hedge the currency exposure of these positions and should hold only domestic Treasury bills. This paper argues that the conventional wisdom may be...
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This paper is a comparative study of the responses to the 1995 Wharton School survey of derivative usage among US non … derivative usage is most common, followed closely by interest rate derivatives, with commodity derivatives a distant third. In … contrast to the similarities, firms in the two countries differ notably on issues such as the primary goal of hedging, their …
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any studies have replicated the finding that the forward rate is a biased predictor of the future change in the spot exchange rate. Usually the forward discount actually points in the wrong direction. But virtually all those studies apply to advanced economies and major currencies. We apply the...
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in foreign currency. So the firm's hedging strategy is simple: sell foreign currency futures equal to the value of its … and its marginal cost in order to assess its exposure to exchange rates. So its hedging strategy also requires detailed …
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incomplete forex risk trading. Incomplete hedging of forex risk, documented for U.S. global mutual funds, has three important …
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, but not at long horizons. At horizons of several years, complete hedging not only does not lower return variance, it … apparent causes, and investigates their implications for hedging practice …
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While gold objects have existed for thousands of years, gold's role in diversified portfolios is not well understood. We critically examine popular stories such as 'gold is an inflation hedge'. We show that gold may be an effective hedge if the investment horizon is measured in centuries. Over...
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We study the properties of the carry trade, a currency speculation strategy in which an investor borrows low-interest-rate currencies and lends high-interest-rate currencies. This strategy generates payoffs which are on average large and uncorrelated with traditional risk factors. We argue that...
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We propose a nonparametric method for estimating the pricing formula of a derivative asset using learning networks … the practical relevance of our network pricing approach, we apply it to the pricing and delta-hedging of Samp;P 500 …
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