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Surveys of corporate risk management document that selective hedging, where managers incorporate their market views … into firms' hedging programs, is widespread in the U.S. and other countries. Stulz (1996) argues that selective hedging … strength to withstand the additional risk from market timing. We study the practice of selective hedging in a 10-year sample of …
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link between selective hedging and managerial compensation. -- Corporate risk management ; selective hedging ; speculation …Surveys of corporate risk management document that selective hedging, where managers incorporate their market views … into firms’ hedging programs, is widespread in the U.S. and other countries. Stulz (1996) argues that selective hedging …
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The widespread practice of managers speculating by incorporating their market views into firms' hedging programs … (“selective hedging”) remains a puzzle. Using a 10-year sample of North American gold mining firms, we find no evidence that … selective hedging is more prevalent among firms that are believed to possess an information advantage. In contrast, we find …
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Many firms face product price risk in foreign currency, uncertain costs in home currency and exchange rate risk. If prices and exchange rates in different countries interact, natural hedges of foreign exchange risk might result. If the effectiveness of such hedges depends on the hedge horizon,...
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In this paper I investigate whether the use of foreign exchange (FX) derivatives adds value to German firms, which together make up one of the major export economies in the world. I analyze a unique, hand-collected dataset that includes information on the use of FX derivatives by 391 firms...
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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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The implied cost of capital (ICC), the internal rate of return that equates speculative stock price to discounted expected future dividends, includes a mispricing-driven component in addition to expected return. The estimated relation of a mispricing-associated factor (X) with ICC is thus a...
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In this paper, we assess the effects of CEO stock options on three key corporate policies for banks: investment choice, amount of borrowing, and level of capital. Using a sample of 549 bank-years for publicly traded banks from 1992 to 2002, we find that stock option grants lead CEOs to undertake...
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Much attention has been paid to the large decreases in value of non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) during the financial crisis. Many observers have argued that the fall in prices was partly driven by decreased liquidity and fire sales. We investigate whether capital...
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Under semi-strong market efficiency future returns are unpredictable from previously released information. We test the degree of semi-strong form market efficiency in the credit default swap (CDS) market by examining the relationship between subsequent CDS returns and previously announced...
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