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speculation, all of the energy firms attempt derivative speculation to a different extent …
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The paper analyses the effects of three sets of accounting rules for financial instruments - Old IAS before IAS 39 became effective, Current IAS or US GAAP, and the Full Fair Value (FFV) model proposed by the Joint Working Group (JWG) - on the financial statements of banks. We develop a...
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The object of this paper is to investigate the role of interest rate risk measures set out in an immunization theory framework for the control of the hedge effectiveness test, as specified in IAS 39. In particular, the case of a cash flow hedge is analyzed and attention is drawn to how the use...
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listedin the ISE-100 Indices, which represent 86 % of the market capitalization, use derivatives mainlyfor hedging purposes …
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This study proposes and estimates a fundamental-analysis-based approach to identifying speculative components in merger and acquisition (M&A) purchase prices. I estimate the speculative component of the price as the portion that cannot be explained by the book value of the target plus a multiple...
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participate in derivative hedging activities. In the case of foreign exchange risk, the greater the exposure, the greater the … related to the level of reinsurance. -- derivative use ; hedging ; insurance companies …
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Extant theories suggest that managers may use hedging either to alleviate underinvestment problems caused by costly … investigate this issue using a hand-collected dataset of hedging and investment behavior of oil and gas exploration and production … firms. We do not find evidence that hedging alleviates underinvestment problems. However, we do find a strong positive …
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derivative hedging are partial substitutes in smoothing earnings before 1999. In this study, we investigate whether FAS 133 … S&P 500 non-financial firms during 1996-2006, we find that the substitution relation between derivative hedging and … volatility associated with derivative hedging post-FAS 133. These results are robust to the use of various model and method …
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We study the relation between hedge accounting and firm value. We propose an easily replicable procedure to generate a dataset directly from company's annual reports. Using our algorithm we are able to classify, for the first time, firms into cash flow, fair value, or foreign net investment...
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and hedging footnote disclosures. Using a difference-in-differences design, I investigate whether these mandatory … complementary measures: (1) actual changes in firms' derivative and hedging disclosures, and (2) pre-SFAS 161 levels of firms …' derivative and hedging activities. Both measures provide consistent evidence that bid-ask spreads decreased more for firms whose …
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