Titlebook: Exchange Rates and the Firm; Strategies to Manage Richard Friberg Book 1999 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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The Vibrancy of the Academic Community98 the yen weakened by some 12 percent against the US dollar. During the same period the Swiss franc weakened by some 5 percent against the Canadian dollar. Exchange rates also exhibit pretty radical swings over longer time periods. From 1 August 1996 until the end of March 1998 the British pound ha

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Justin Kurland,Nick Tilley,Shane D. Johnsonrate variability. Exposure measures what one has at risk.The most commonly accepted definition stems from Adler and Dumas(1984). A good summary of their definition is found in Levi (1990,p. 187). The definition runs as follows: ‘Foreign exchange exposure isthe sensitivity of real domestic currency v

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Katherine M. Edenfield,Kimberly G. Harmon you as manager worry about this at all? In this chapter we will discuss if economic exposure should be hedged. Economic exposure is, as noted in the last chapter, concerned with the sensitivity of cash flows to exchange rates. Here we will concentrate on management of exposure using financial instr

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Conclusion: Don Quixote Scavenges for Food,the present discounted value of expected future cash flows. Since economic exposure is concerned with cash flows and the value of the firm, the reasons for hedging that we mentioned in Chapter 4 are potentially important.

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João Manuel Casquinha Malaia Santos businessman that built strategy on results from regressions such as those in Chapter 7 above, without understanding the underlying mechanisms. This point is of course not new: for instance Coppé . (1996) stress that ‘Companies need to understand — not just correlate — the relationship between forei

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Brenda Elsey,Stanislao G. Puglieseanges depends on laws in different countries. Accounting exposure arises when a firm has foreign subsidiaries, and the financial statements of the subsidiaries are maintained in some other currency than the parent’s home currency. Typically the financial statements of subsidiaries are maintained in

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Football and the FA Women’s Super Leaguethe Economic and Monetary Union in Europe (EMU). At the time of writing, the shape of EMU is still surrounded by great clouds of uncertainty – we still do not know if it will actually come into being with a common currency from 2002 or not. Neither do we know the exact . of the European Central Bank

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137567338, Spain and Portugal, today has an accounting exposure.This exposure will obviously disappear if all three countries take part in a monetary union. Similarly the basic issue is simple for firms outside EMU — a Swedish or US firm having a German subsidiary will have accounting exposure to the euro in