While in previous literature foreign currency exposure is estimated to be surprisingly small and insignificant, we question in this paper the rationality assumption and show that the traditional use of realized exchange rate changes to approximate unexpected currency shocks leads to a strong...

This paper studies the value-relevance of FCD disclosures of European non-financial firms. Our findings show that these firms use FCDs to hedge and not to speculate but that the impact of hedging strategies' disclosures is statistically and economically weak revealing that either (i) managers...

This paper not only determines why individual firms use foreign currency derivative but investigates also what effects this derivatives usage has on the foreign exchange risk exposure of 471 European non-financial firms. We find strong evidence in favor of the existence of economies of scale in...

This paper examines whether there exists any relationship between individual Asian firms' stock returns and fluctuations in foreign exchange rates. We find that about 25 percent of these firms experienced economically significant exposure effects to the U.S. dollar and 22.5 percent to the...

Liquidity level and liquidity risk are priced in the cross-section of corporate bond yields and returns. In the first case the focus is on the individual liquidity level while in the second case it is on the exposure to a common liquidity factor. In this paper we focus on the impact of the...

The central issue of this paper is whether stock prices are exposed to total exchange rate movements -- as traditionally measured -- or to revisions in expected future exchange rate movements and unanticipated currency shocks, and by how much of each. Based on a sample of 1675 U.S. firms...

This study uses Hines' (1996) dividend process model to test the effect of domestic versus foreign profitability shocks on firms' dividend payout policy. Investigating an international sample of 283 companies from Continental Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the U.S.A. and Canada, we find that...

This study uses Hines' (1996) dividend process model to test the effect of domestic versus foreign profitability shocks on firms' dividend payout policy. Investigating an international sample of 283 companies from Europe, Australia, New-Zealand, the U.S.A. and Canada, we find that increases in...