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This paper presents international evidence on the use of financial derivatives for a sample of 7,292 non-financial firms from 48 countries including the United States. Across all countries, 59.8% of the firms use derivatives in general, while 43.6% use currency derivatives, 32.5% interest rate...
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The paper assesses the usefulness of selective hedging strategies when combined with forecast techniques in the live … hog contract. The use of routine futures and options hedging is not attractive relative to a cash-only strategy. However …, forecasting and hedging can contribute to price risk management improvement for risk-averse producers. Consistent with previous …
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Firm value is influenced in many direct and indirect ways by financial risks, which consist of unexpected changes of foreign exchange rates, interest rates and commodity prices. The fact that a significant number of corporations are committing resources to risk management activi-ties is,...
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increasing with firm size and exposure and that liquidity constraints are important in explaining transaction exposure hedging … study uses survey data, which enables us to differentiate between hedging aimed at translation exposure and transaction …. Importantly, we find that the existence of loan covenants explains translation exposure hedging. This suggests that firms hedge …
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This paper analyzes the way in which income tax and liquidity determine the purchase or rental of a permanent home in …
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This paper analyzes the way in which income tax and liquidity determine the purchase or rental of a permanent home in …
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This paper analyzes the way in which income tax and liquidity determine the purchase or rental of a permanent home in …
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We study the basic economic problem of choice between long-term and short-term commitments under a general characterization of uncertainty (aggregate uncertainty). When contingencies are contractible, a perfect market of Arrow-Debreau contingent claims implements the social optimum. When...
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We test whether liquidity is priced in the euro-denominated corporate bond market. We use the Arbitrage Pricing Theory … to control for other sources of risk. Yields are used to measure the bonds' expected returns and liquidity is … significant pricing anomalies due to liquidity exist for euro- denominated bonds. We find that the yield premium between liquid …
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