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Implicit currency carry trades of companies

Entrop, Oliver; Fuchs, Fabian U. - 2020

The currency carry trade (CCT) strategy - borrowing in low-interest-rate currencies and investing in high-interest-rate currencies - has been found to generate excess returns that cannot be explained by common risk factors. We argue that companies implicitly execute carry trades, when they have...

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Analyst Disagreement and Aggregate Volatility Risk

Barinov, Alexander - 2015

The paper explains why firms with high dispersion of analyst forecasts earn low future returns. These firms beat the CAPM in periods of increasing aggregate volatility and thereby provide a hedge against aggregate volatility risk. The aggregate volatility risk factor can explain the abnormal...

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Currency Hedging Strategies Using Dynamic Multivariate GARCH

Chang, Chia-Lin - 2012

This paper examines the effectiveness of using futures contracts as hedging instruments of: (1) alternative models of …, Euro, British pound and Japanese yen, against the American dollar, are used to analyze hedge ratios and hedging … optimal portfolio weights and optimal hedge ratios to identify appropriate currency hedging strategies. The hedging …

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Crude Oil Hedging Strategies Using Dynamic Multivariate GARCH

Tansuchat, Roengchai - 2010

dollar long in crude oil spot. Finally, the hedging effectiveness indicates that DCC (BEKK) is the best (worst) model for OHR …

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A corporate financing-based asset pricing model

Steri, Roberto - 2018

I show that an asset pricing model for the equity claims of a value-maximizing firm can be constructed from its optimal financial contracting behavior. I study a dynamic contracting model in which firms trade off the costs and benefits of a given promise to pay external lenders in a specific...

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Corporate Hedging and the Variance of Stock Returns

Biguri, Kizkitza - 2019

By means of a difference-in-differences approach (sigma-DID), we investigate the effect that hedging has on corporate … risk. Examining the relation between hedging and the idiosyncratic variance of stock returns, we show that when new …

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The effectiveness of hedge fund investment strategies under various market conditions

Falkowski, Michał; Sierpińska-Sawicz, Agata; … - In: Contemporary economics 14 (2020) 2, pp. 127-143

The main purpose of the article was to analyze the effectiveness of the basic investment strategies used by hedge funds in the long term (years 1994-2015) and during the global financial crisis (years 2007-2009). Using information from commercial databases we attempted to verify the hypothesis...

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Corporate Hedging, Investment, and Higher Moments of Stock Returns

Doshi, Hitesh; Kumar, Praveen; Zurita, Virgilio - 2021

that cash-flow hedging and capital investment by firms affects their future stock return distribution. Hedging by firms … investment counteracts these effects. Using hand-collected hedging data from energy-related firms, we find empirical results … consistent with the theoretical predictions. The pull-to-normality effect of hedging is stronger among firms with small size …

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Determinants of Capital Market Reactions to Seasoned Equity Offers by German Corporations

Gebhardt, Günther; Heiden, Stefan; Daske, Holger - 2001

Our study provides evidence on the share price reactions to the announcement of equity issues in Germany, where capital market is characterized by institutional features distinct from the U.S. market. German seasoned equity issues yield a positive market reaction which contrasts to the...

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Default Risk in Stochastic Volatility Models

Gersbach, Hans; Surulescu, Nicolae - 2010

We consider a stochastic volatility model of the mean-reverting type to describe the evolution of a firm’s values instead of the classical approach by Merton with geometric Brownian motions. We develop an analytical expression for the default probability. Our simulation results indicate that...

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