Due to globalization competitive firms face increasing economic opportunities for locating their activities in countries, regions and cities that provide the best business environment for their specific needs. In our study we focus on the impact of economic risk and risk preferences upon...

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht ein Duopol bei unsicherer Nachfrage unter Risikoaversion. Die Produktion der gesamten Industrie fällt durch die Einführung von Nachfrageunsicherheit; der Marktpreis steigt wegen des schwächeren Wettbewerbs. Damit ist die Veränderung des Gewinns und des...

Several years after reunification, the situation of economic instability and social dissatisfaction demanded an ambitious plan to develop regions in East Germany. The key idea was to attract investment and business to the region. The peripheral situation of Saxony, and Dresden especially, has...

The purpose of this paper is to assess under what conditions exchange rate volatility exerts a positive effect on a firm's labour demand. As the exchange rate volatility increases, so does the value of the export option provided the firm under study is flexible. Flexibility is important because...

In this paper we consider a risk averse multinational firm under exchange rate risk. We analyze the impact of exchange rate risk and of the use of currency forwards upon the firm's global market decisions with respect to international firm-specific capital allocation and direct foreign...

We consider a monopolistic, risk-averse multinational firm which sells and produces at home and abroad under exchange rate uncertainty. First we show that the stochastic exchange rate implies higher production and lower sales in the foreign country. Then we analyze the impact of currency futures...

The paper presents a model of a risk-averse exporting firm under exchange rate risk. We focus on the economic implications of basis risk. It is shown that the regression dependence assumptions between spot and futures exchange rates are essential in analyzing optimal hedging and export...

This paper constructs an intertemporal model of the spot and forward markets for foreign exchange and shows that in equilibrium the forward market is unbiased, i.e., the forward rate is equal to the expected spot rate which will prevail in the market next period. This holds true as long as the...

We study the impact of exchange rate risk on an exporting firm in a developing country when there is no forward market in the foreign currency. However there exists a forward traded asset in this country the price of which is highly correlated to the foreign currency. By indirectly hedging its...