We analyze, for the first time, how firms choose the currency in which they price transactions in international trade of services and investigate, using direct evidence, whether the US dollar (USD) plays a dominant role in services trade. Drawing on a new granular dataset on extra-European Union...

This paper presents some sound practices for foreign-currency risk management in developing countries and outlines instruments for managing sovereign debt portfolio currency exposures. Adoption of a debt management strategy with well-defined targets for foreign exchange risk is a critical...

Even though financial risk management has the ability to generate value, the use of financial derivatives among nonfinancial corporations remains limited. We identify a channel that contributes to this limited use: the decoupling of derivatives losses and operational gains. Specifically, firms...

This study aims to determine whether the use of derivatives in non-financial companies in Indonesia as a hedging instrument affects firms' exchange rate risk exposure. The study's sample is 164 non-financial companies listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2019. We used the multiple...

For two hypothetical firms with different home currencies, this study compares alternative production locations if the firms compete in one firm’s home country. Using simple three-outcome scenarios, the study shows that a firm’s foreign exchange (FX) exposure depends on the currency location...

This empirical study of the exchange rate exposure management of Danish non-financial firms listed on the Copenhagen Stock Exchange shows that debt denominated in foreign currency (“foreign debt”) is a very important alternative to the use of currency derivatives. The results show that the...

This paper presents a novel approach to measure firm-level labor-shortage exposure by leveraging finance-specialized machine learning techniques. Specifically, we use FinBERT to extract information from earnings conference call transcripts to develop a reliable measure of labor-shortage...

This paper examines the existence and the magnitude of conflict between family owners and minority shareholders within family firms by assessing the impact of foreign currency (FC hereafter) risk management strategies on firm value in France. From a secondary agency problem perspective, we...

Over the last decade foreign bond portfolio positions in US dollar assets have risen above the reciprocal US investor positions in foreign currencies. In periods of increased economic uncertainty, institutional investors hedge their international bond positions, which creates a net hedging...

FX rates are increasingly volatile in recent macroeconomic and geopolitical times of uncertainty. FX risk if not dealt with properly can pose existential threads to companies. Especially fast-growing companies, that have previously not hedged FX risks due to insignificance, need to build up a...

This paper introduces a sparse and stable optimization approach for a multi-currency asset allocation problem. We study the benefits of joint optimization of assets and currencies as opposed to the standard industry practice of managing currency risk via so-called currency overlay strategies. In...

Producers and consumers of commodities are likely to trade commodity futures with the dual intention of mitigating spot price risk and extracting profits through speculation, a practice known as selectively hedging. We put forward an integrated-signal approach to selective hedging that...

In this paper, I construct a dataset, which measures the external liability composition of emerging market economies in different instruments and currencies. Thus, the dataset shows, with reasonable precision, the original sin dissipation in emerging markets since the early-2000s and accordingly...

In this paper, I construct a dataset, which measures the external liability composition of emerging market economies in different instruments and currencies. Thus, the dataset shows, with reasonable precision, the original sin dissipation in emerging markets since the early 2000s and accordingly...

Over the last decade foreign bond portfolio positions in US dollar assets have risen above the reciprocal US investor positions in foreign currencies. In periods of increased economic uncertainty, institutional investors hedge their international bond positions, which creates a net hedging...

We estimate the time-varying co-movements of large set of bilateral exchange rates/the RMB and explore their relationship with the firm-level exchange rate exposure in China. We find that firms’ exchange rate exposure increases in periods of high exchange rate co-movements. The co-movements of...

Under the trade-intensive economic environment, one of the most appropriate means among alternatives in order to preserve corporate profitability from the foreign exchange rate risk is through the hedging against the exchange rate fluctuation. Working(1962) argued that when the prices are...

Japanese exporters' choice of invoice currencies is investigated using newly available official Customs declaration data, which records detailed information, including the trading partners' names, invoicing currency, and product descriptions. The strategic complementarity mechanism, that is,...