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spot prices and US equity prices following the 2007 Global Financial Crisis. It also aims at estimating hedging …,870 daily observations of US financial market during 2007-2017. Findings-The results suggest that the hedging effectiveness of … investors, policy makers and portfolio managers. The key findings of this study are critical in formulating optimal hedging …
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This paper analyzes the use of foreign exchange derivatives by non-financial publicly traded Brazilian companies from 2007 to 2009. Using balance-sheet data on firms' positions in derivatives and their foreign exchange exposure, this study finds that a significant number of companies speculated...
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This paper analyzes the use of foreign exchange derivatives by non-financial publicly traded Brazilian companies from 2007 to 2009. Using balance-sheet data on firms' positions in derivatives and their foreign exchange exposure, this study finds that a significant number of companies speculated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121433
-collect data on credit lines and interest rate hedging for a random sample of 600 COMPUSTAT firms. We document that drawdowns of …
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This paper analyzes the use of foreign exchange derivatives by non-financial publicly traded Brazilian companies from 2007 to 2009. Using balance-sheet data on firms' positions in derivatives and their foreign exchange exposure, this study finds that a significant number of companies speculated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109132
This paper investigates dynamic currency hedging benefits, with a further focus on the impact of currency hedging … is hedged. Hedging strategies of currency risk, using exchange rates futures and driven by several multivariate GARCH … decrease in hedging rations compared to naïve hedging strategies based on linear regressions or variance smoothing …
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This study investigates the effect of corporate hedging on stock price crash risk. We test two competing hypotheses …. Under the transparency hypothesis, hedging reduces a firm's information asymmetry and lowers crash risk. Under the opacity … hypothesis, hedging decreases financial reporting quality and increases crash risk. Using a comprehensive sample of firms from …
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examine the influence of firm hedging strategies on their working capital management. Our evidence implies that increased cash … holdings and derivatives are alternative ways of hedging risk, and also provides another perspective on the U.S. “trapped cash …
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We study corporate hedging during the 2007-2008 financial crisis. We find that hedging programs are fragile. Firms … existing lines of credit, and saving more out of realized cash-flows. Terminations of hedging programs decreased firm value by …
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Using a comprehensive dataset of hedge fund 13F filings, we analyze hedge fund trading from 1998-2010 to determine if investor redemptions cause fire sales and stock market disruptions. We find evidence of hedge fund fire sales in the two quarters with the worst stock market performance. During...
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