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We consider an exporting firm facing FX risk. We show that FX options are not used for hedging, if there is no ex-post production flexibility. Hence, in the standard setting of having no ex-post optionality, hedging with forwards is the best choice.The value of FX options for hedging arises as...
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) recognises in their recent global risk reports the need to better understand the …
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The emphasis of international trade theories shifted in the last forty years, from comparative advantage, to scale economies and product differentiation. More recently, the “new” new trade theories have stressed the role of firm heterogeneity, which has led to a renewed interest on the study...
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exchange rates. We estimate our model to current data and find i) that countries at the periphery of the world trade network …
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This paper establishes a causal link between the dollar exchange rate and international trade flows, employing a new instrument for the U.S. Dollar that is based on domestic U.S. housing activity (Ma and Zhang (2019)). In line with the dominant currency paradigm (Gopinath et al. (2020)), import...
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We study the evolution of offshore renminbi trading between 2016 and 2019. The diffusion behaviour of offshore renminbi trading during this period is different from the one between 2013 and 2016. The geographical diffusion process displayed in the 2016-2019 period, in addition to the previously...
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We study the evolution of offshore renminbi trading between 2016 and 2019. The diffusion behaviour of offshore renminbi trading during this period is different from the one between 2013 and 2016. The geographical diffusion process displayed in the 2016-2019 period, in addition to the previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234514
economy in the last decade and to measure the influence of the world economic crisis of 2009 on their external trade sector … regions of the world economy for the international trading transactions of CEE countries. The exercise revealed that CEE … ratio as a result of the world economic turbulences starting in 2009. Whereas the transition in the current account balance …
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equity markets over a 19-year period, we measure the real-world trading costs and price impact function of a large trader. We …
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Most CGE trade models fix current account balances exogenously, in accordance with the widely accepted view that trade policy may influence trade flows, but that current accounts are constrained by symmetric capital account balances, on which trade policy has little effect. The MIRAGE-D model...
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