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Using a unique dataset with information on the currency composition of firms' assets and liabilities in six Latin-American countries, I investigate how the choice of exchange rate regime affects firms' foreign currency borrowing decisions and the associated currency mismatches in their balance...
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This paper analyzes the use of foreign exchange derivatives by non-financial publicly traded Brazilian companies from 2007 to 2009. Using balance-sheet data on firms' positions in derivatives and their foreign exchange exposure, this study finds that a significant number of companies speculated...
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This paper investigates the determinants of hedging strategy choice. We introduce different dynamic discrete choice … frameworks with random effects to mitigate unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence. Using a new dataset on the hedging … activities of 150 US oil and gas producers, we find strong evidence that hedging strategy is influenced by investment …
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hedging Second, the firm manages its capital structure through dividend distributions and investment. When leverage is low …
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We study the empirical performance of the classical minimum-variance hedging strategy, comparing several econometric … statistically and economically indistinguishable from the one-for-one naive hedge. However, minimum-variance hedging models … hedgers to use a naive hedging strategy on the crack spread bundles now offered by the exchange as it is the cheapest and …
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Both financing and risk management involve promises to pay that need to be collateralized, resulting in a financing versus risk management trade-off. We study this trade-off in a dynamic model of commodity price risk management and show that risk management is limited and that more financially...
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hedging. We argue that high levels of internationalization can reduce the need for foreign exchange hedging through … diversification (e.g. sales to several markets) and operational hedging (matching of cash flows and operational flexibility). We …-financial German firms. Foreign exchange hedging activity peaks when half of sales (or long-term assets) is outside Europe. Our paper …
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In this paper, we design and evaluate eight different strategies for hedging commodity price risks of industrial …-variance portfolio analysis for determining the most efficient hedging strategy. We find that the strategy adopted can have a marked …, portfolio optimization shows that a mix of various hedging strategies can further improve the profitability of a heat …
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The purpose of this work is to show how a law requirement aimed at strengthening banks during stressed periods could end up making banks even riskier. In the last 3 years, since when the economic crisis moved from subprime sector to sovereign debt, we faced a variation on bond price never...
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This paper investigates dynamic currency hedging benefits, with a further focus on the impact of currency hedging … is hedged. Hedging strategies of currency risk, using exchange rates futures and driven by several multivariate GARCH … decrease in hedging rations compared to naïve hedging strategies based on linear regressions or variance smoothing …
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