List of figures. List of tables. List of abbreviations. Preface and summary. 1. Introduction.2. Literature review: relationship between derivatives and risk management and the concept of risk management efficiency and its measurement.3. Risk management efficiency measurement and analysis: an...

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Acknowledgements -- Emerging issues in the risk management, corporate governance and firm value relationships -- Risk management, corporate governance, accounting information : issues and theories -- Econometrics models for hedging, corporate governance and firm value -- Analysis of the hedging,...

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Introduction -- The foreign exchange intervention -- The bid-ask spread: the market microstructure perspective -- The empirical decomposition of the bid-ask spread for exchange rates -- Government intervention on the spread -- References -- Appendices.

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