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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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We analyze the worst currency carry loss episodes in recent decades, including causes, attribution by currency, timing …
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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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A low percentage of firms depicting exposure to foreign exchange rates is one of the seriously researched topic in the realm of Foreign Exchange Risk and its Management. Owing to its counter intuitive empirical results, it has also been referred to as Currency Exposure Puzzle. This paper, one of...
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It is generally acknowledged that one of the risks faced by any company is FX risk, especially when the business operates internationally. For individual companies, exposure to FX risk results in different financial implications, stressing such parameters as the industry affiliation and the...
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In this paper, we examine the economic value of a text-based measure of financial integration. Our attention measure of financial integration is a strong positive predictor of currency excess returns. Specifically, the financial integration measure is positively priced in the cross-section of...
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Hedging downside risk before substantial price corrections is vital for risk management and long-only active equity …
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The position of countries in a network of external portfolio investments provides a novel macroeconomic characteristic to explain violations of uncovered interest rate parity. I derive a network centrality measure, where central countries are highly integrated with key suppliers of tradeable...
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