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The paper explores the long versus short-term attributes of the airline industry exposure to oil price risk in a … investigate the long-term equilibrium relationship between airline companies' stock prices, oil price risk, financial market … contribution, the paper analyses the prospects and challenges of the airline industry in dealing with oil price risk in the post …
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The currency carry trade (CCT) strategy - borrowing in low-interest-rate currencies and investing in high-interest-rate currencies - has been found to generate excess returns that cannot be explained by common risk factors. We argue that companies implicitly execute carry trades, when they have...
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This paper examines the effectiveness of using futures contracts as hedging instruments of: (1) alternative models of …, Euro, British pound and Japanese yen, against the American dollar, are used to analyze hedge ratios and hedging … optimal portfolio weights and optimal hedge ratios to identify appropriate currency hedging strategies. The hedging …
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By means of a difference-in-differences approach (sigma-DID), we investigate the effect that hedging has on corporate … risk. Examining the relation between hedging and the idiosyncratic variance of stock returns, we show that when new …
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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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that cash-flow hedging and capital investment by firms affects their future stock return distribution. Hedging by firms … investment counteracts these effects. Using hand-collected hedging data from energy-related firms, we find empirical results … consistent with the theoretical predictions. The pull-to-normality effect of hedging is stronger among firms with small size …
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I show that an asset pricing model for the equity claims of a value-maximizing firm can be constructed from its optimal financial contracting behavior. I study a dynamic contracting model in which firms trade off the costs and benefits of a given promise to pay external lenders in a specific...
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dollar long in crude oil spot. Finally, the hedging effectiveness indicates that DCC (BEKK) is the best (worst) model for OHR …
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The recent merger between US Airways and American Airlines was approved by federal and state antitrust authorities, after the merging parties agreed to divest slots and gates at certain “constrained” airports to low cost carriers. By analyzing the stock-market returns of rival airlines, we...
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