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When hedging fails: what every CEO should know about speculation

Tokic, Damir - In: Journal of Management Development 31 (2012) 8, pp. 801-807

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the theory of speculation to corporate executives. It is important … that corporate hedgers understand how bubbles develop to effectively adjust their corporate hedging strategies. Since … excess speculation is always the primary cause of all bubbles, it is mandatory that corporate executives understand the …

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The usage of currency derivatives in multilateral banks

KAMAU, PHILIP; INANGA, ENO L.; RWEGASIRA, KAMI - In: Management Research Review 38 (2015) 5, pp. 482-504

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which multilateral banks (MBs) use currency derivatives (CDs) to hedge and speculate in managing currency risk. It aims to provide an empirical assessment of CDs products used by MBs as a group not studied before....

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Explaining Speculative Expansions

Xiao, Wei - In: Contributions in Macroeconomics 4 (2004) 1

empirical data. Our results suggest that the speculation hypothesis has more explanatory power than the productivity hypothesis …

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Spekulation am Terminmarkt und die Preisentwicklung von Agrarrohstoffen am Kassamarkt: Eine Zeitreihenanalyse der CFTC Berichte für Weizen, Mais und Sojabohnen / Speculation in Fut...

Maul, Daniel; Fischer, Martin; Schiereck, Dirk - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 235 (2015) 6, pp. 608-629

Summary Over the last few years, rising prices and increasing price volatility of major agricultural food commodities were observed. This caused a debate among various organizations about who is responsible for this development. While many Non-Governmental Organizations proclaim that...

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Conventional futures: derivatives in Islamic law of contract

Uddin, Md Akther; Ahmad, Abu Umar Faruq - In: International Journal of Law and Management 62 (2020) 4, pp. 315-337

does not exist, deferment in the both counter values, gharar or ambiguity and excessive risk taking, pure speculation and …

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Characteristics and development of corporate and sovereign CDS

Bannier, Christina E.; Heidorn, Thomas; Vogel, Heinz-Dieter - In: The Journal of Risk Finance 15 (2014) 5, pp. 482-509

(speculative risk-trading or risk-hedging) of the two markets in recent years. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use … the sovereign CDS market more strongly for speculative purposes than for risk-hedging. This shows both in the shift of …. Particularly the sovereign CDS market appears to have shifted from a risk-hedging instrument to being used more strongly for …

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From anticipation to anxiety in a market for lottery-like stocks

Boisen, Mikael; Durand, Robert B.; Gould, John - In: Review of Behavioral Finance 7 (2015) 1, pp. 42-59

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate a unique sample of lottery-like stocks and contextualize their short-run price behavior with respect to behavioral principles. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conduct a short-run event-study of the abnormal returns for stock...

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Pure self-financing trading strategies under transaction costs

Beutner, Eric - In: Statistics & Decisions 24 (2006) 4, pp. 435-443

-financing strategies. Furthermore, we analyze the relationship between them. Finally, we establish a hedging theorem concerning these …

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Portraits of five hedge fund fraud cases

Muhtaseb, Majed R.; Chun “Sylvia” Yang, Chun - In: Journal of Financial Crime 15 (2008) 2, pp. 179-213

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is two fold: educate investors about hedge fund managers' activities prior to the fraud recognition by the authorities and to help investors and other stakeholders in the hedge fund industry identify red flags before fraud is actually committed....

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Risk Management and Derivatives Use in Australian Firms

Batten, Jonathan A.; Hettihewa, Samanthala - In: Journal of Asia Business Studies 1 (2007) 2, pp. 37-44

Country‐specific information on risk management is increasingly important, not only for investors and decision makers in international markets but also, for those in national and regional markets. This study reports the results of a cross‐sectional survey of risk management practice and...

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