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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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relatively understudied. We study firms' currency risk exposure and their hedging choices by employing a unique dataset covering …, international trade, trade credits and foreign currency debt. We uncover four novel facts: (i) natural hedging of currency risk is … limited, (ii) financial hedging is more likely to be used by larger firms and for larger amounts, (iii) firms in international …
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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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of our carry trades are not significantly different from unconditional betas. Hedging with options reduces but does not …
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China's exchange rate policy in 2005 and 2010 and data on 6,050 firms in 44 countries. Renminbi appreciation has a positive …We examine the impact of renminbi revaluation on firm valuations, considering two surprise announcements of changes in … effect on firms exporting to China but little positive or even a negative impact on those providing inputs for China …
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In this paper we examine the relationship between exchange rate movements and firm value. We estimate the exchange rate exposure of publicly listed firms in a sample of eight (non-US) industrialized and emerging markets, and find that a significant percentage of these firms are indeed exposed....
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This paper develops an explicitly stochastic new open economy macroeconomics' model, which can potentially be used to explore the qualitative and quantitative welfare differences between alternative exchange rate regimes. A crucial feature is that we do not simplify by assuming certainty...
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This paper explores a new direction for empirical models of exchange rate determination. The motivation arises from two well documented facts, the failure of log-linear empirical exchange rate models of the 1970's and the variability of risk premiums in the forward market. Rational maximizing...
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variability, full hedging is possible. Even for the case of no real exchange rate variability, it is shown, variability of the …
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We study the dynamic properties of sovereign bonds in emerging markets and their associated risk premiums. We focus on the properties of credit spreads, exchange rates, and their interaction. Relying on the term structure of local currency bonds issued by Asia-Pacific sovereigns, we find that...
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