Instruments of risk mitigation play an important role in managing country risk within the foreign direct investment (FDI) decision. Our study assesses country risk by state-dependent preferences and introduces futures contracts as a tool of risk mitigation. We show that country risk assessments...

Wir untersuchen für ein internationales Unternehmen das Zusammenwirken von finanz- und realwirtschaftlichem Risikomanagement. Dies geschieht auf der Grundlage eines intertemporalen, stochastischen Entscheidungsmodells. Die gemeinsame Betrachtung von Devisen-Futures und Lagerhaltung bestätigt...

Based upon the foundations of mean-variance decision-making theory, we demonstrate that a change in the risk situation of an international enterprise open currency position does not inevitably require a corresponding hedging accommodation. Given a new risk situation, whether a revision of the...

We study the impact of exchange rate risk on an exporting firm in a developing country when there is no forward market in the foreign currency. However there exists a forward traded asset in this country the price of which is highly correlated to the foreign currency. By indirectly hedging its...