INTERNATIONAL
FINANCIAL
MANAGEMENT
EUN / RESNICK
Second Edition
13Chapter ThirteenManagement of Transaction Exposure
Chapter Objective:
This chapter discusses various methods available for
the management of transaction exposure facing
multinational firms.
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Chapter Outline
? Forward Market Hedge
? Money Market Hedge
? Options Market Hedge
? Cross-Hedging Minor Currency Exposure
? Hedging Contingent Exposure
? Hedging Recurrent Exposure with Swap Contracts
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Chapter Outline (continued)
? Hedging Through Invoice Currency
? Hedging via Lead and Lag
? Exposure Netting
? Should the Firm Hedge?
? What Risk Management Products do Firms Use?
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Forward Market Hedge
? If you are going to owe foreign currency in the
future,agree to buy the foreign currency now by
entering into long position in a forward contract.
? If you are going to receive foreign currency in the
future,agree to sell the foreign currency now by
entering into short position in a forward contract.
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You are a U.S,importer of British woolens and
have just ordered next year’s inventory.
Payment of ￡100M is due in one year.
Question,How can you fix the cash outflow in
dollars?
Forward Market Hedge,an Example
Answer,One way is to put yourself in a position
that delivers ￡100M in one year—a long
forward contract on the pound,
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Money Market Hedge
? This is the same idea as covered interest arbitrage
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Money Market Hedge
The importer of British woolens can hedge his ￡100 million
payable with a money market hedge:
Borrow $112.05 million in the U.S.
Translate $112.05 million into pounds at the spot rate S($/￡)
= $1.25/￡
Invest ￡89.64 million in the UK at i￡= 11.56% for one year.
In one year your investment will have grown to ￡100 million.
Spot exchange rate S($/￡) = $1.25/￡
360-day forward rate F360($/￡) = $1.20/￡
U.S,discount rate i$ = 7.10%
British discount rate i￡ = 11.56%
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Money Market Hedge
Where do the numbers come from?
We owe our supplier ￡100 million in one year—so we know that we need
to have an investment with a future value of ￡100 million,Since i￡=
11.56% we need to invest ￡89.64 million at the start of the year.
How many dollars will it take to acquire ￡89.64 million at the start
of the year if the spot rate S($/￡) = $1.25/￡?
1, 1 1 5 6
0 0? 9, 6 4 ?
, 2 5
$ 1, 0 0? 9, 6 4$ 1 1 2, 0 5 ??
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Money Market Hedge
Suppose you want to hedge a payable in the amount
of ￡y with a maturity of T:
i,Borrow $x at t = 0 on a loan at a rate of i$ per year.
(Note that $x = ￡y/(1+ i￡)T at the spot rate.)
ii,Exchange $x for ￡y/(1+ i￡)T at the prevailing spot rate,
invest ￡y/(1+ i￡)T at i￡for the maturity of the payable to
achieve ￡y.
At maturity,you will owe a $x(1 + i$),
Your British investments will have grown enough to service
your payable and you will have no exposure to the pound.
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Money Market Hedge
Suppose you want to hedge a ￡ receivable in the
amount of ￡y with a maturity of T:
i,Borrow ￡y/(1+ i￡)T at t = 0.
ii,Exchange ￡y/(1+ i￡)T for $x at the prevailing
spot rate.
At maturity,you will owe a $y which can be paid
with your receivable,
You will have no exposure to the dollar-pound
exchange rate.
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Options Market Hedge
? Options provide a flexible hedge against the
downside,while preserving the upside potential.
? To hedge a foreign currency payable buy calls on
the currency.
? If the currency appreciates,your call option lets you
buy the currency at the exercise price of the call.
? To hedge a foreign currency receivable buy puts
on the currency.
? If the currency depreciates,your put option lets you sell
the currency for the exercise price.
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Cross-Hedging
Minor Currency Exposure
? The major currencies are the,U.S,dollar,
Canadian dollar,British pound,French franc,
Swiss franc,Mexican peso,Italian lira,German
mark,Japanese yen,and now the euro.
? Everything else is a minor currency,like the
Polish zloty,
? It is difficult,expensive,or impossible to use
financial contracts to hedge exposure to minor
currencies.
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Cross-Hedging
Minor Currency Exposure
? Cross-Hedging involves hedging a position in one
asset by taking a position in another asset.
? The effectiveness of cross-hedging depends upon
how well the assets are correlated.
? An example would be a U.S,importer with liabilities in
Czech koruna hedging with long or short forward
contracts on the euro,If the koruna is expensive when
the euro is expensive,or even if the koruna is cheap
when the euro is expensive it can be a good hedge,But
they need to co-vary in a predictable way.
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Hedging Contingent Exposure
? If only certain contingencies give rise to exposure,
then options can be effective insurance.
? For example,if your firm is bidding on a
hydroelectric dam project in Canada,you will
need to hedge the Canadian-U.S,dollar exchange
rate only if your bid wins the contract,Your firm
can hedge this contingent risk with options.
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Hedging Recurrent Exposure
with Swaps
? Recall that swap contracts can be viewed as a
portfolio of forward contracts.
? Firms that have recurrent exposure can very likely
hedge their exchange risk at a lower cost with
swaps than with a program of hedging each
exposure as it comes along.
? It is also the case that swaps are available in
longer-terms than futures and forwards.
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Hedging through
Invoice Currency
? The firm can shift,share,or diversify:
? shift exchange rate risk
?by invoicing foreign sales in home currency
? share exchange rate risk
?by pro-rating the currency of the invoice between foreign and
home currencies
? diversify exchange rate risk
?by using a market basket index
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Hedging via Lead and Lag
? If a currency is appreciating,pay those bills
denominated in that currency early; let customers
in that country pay late as long as they are paying
in that currency.
? If a currency is depreciating,give incentives to
customers who owe you in that currency to pay
early; pay your obligations denominated in that
currency as late as your contracts will allow.
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Exposure Netting
? A multinational firm should not consider deals in
isolation,but should focus on hedging the firm as
a portfolio of currency positions.
? As an example,consider a U.S.-based multinational
with Korean won receivables and Japanese yen
payables,Since the won and the yen tend to move in
similar directions against the U.S,dollar,the firm can
just wait until these accounts come due and just buy yen
with won.
? Even if it’s not a perfect hedge,it may be too expensive
or impractical to hedge each currency separately.
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Exposure Netting
? Many multinational firms use a reinvoice center,
Which is a financial subsidiary that nets out the
intrafirm transactions.
? Once the residual exposure is determined,then the
firm implements hedging.
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider a U.S,MNC with three subsidiaries and the
following foreign exchange transactions:
$10 $35 $40$30
$20
$25
$60
$40
$10
$30
$20
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$10 $35 $40$30
$20
$25
$60
$40
$10
$30
$20
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$10 $35 $40$30
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$20
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$10 $35 $40$30
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$20
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$10 $35 $10
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$20
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$10 $35 $10
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$20
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$10 $35 $10
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$10 $35 $10
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$25 $10
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$25 $10
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$25 $10
$25
$20 $10
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$25 $10
$25
$20 $10
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$25 $10$15
$20
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$25 $10$15
$20
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$15 $10$15
$20
$10
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$15 $10$15
$20
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$15 $10$15
$20
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$15 $10$15
$30
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$15 $10$15
$30
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$15 $10$15
$30
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$10
$15
$30
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$10
$15
$30
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$10
$15
$30
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$10
$15
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$10
$15
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$15
$40
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Clearly,multilateral netting can simplify things greatly,
$15
$40
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Compare this:
$10 $35 $40$30
$20
$25
$60
$40
$10
$30
$20
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
With this:
$15
$40
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Should the Firm Hedge?
? Not everyone agrees that a firm should hedge:
? Hedging by the firm may not add to shareholder wealth
if the shareholders can manage exposure themselves.
? Hedging may not reduce the non-diversifiable risk of
the firm,Therefore shareholders who hold a diversified
portfolio are not helped when management hedges.
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Should the Firm Hedge?
? In the presence of market imperfections,the firm
should hedge.
? Information Asymmetry
?The managers may have better information than the
shareholders.
? Differential Transactions Costs
?The firm may be able to hedge at better prices than the
shareholders.
? Default Costs
?Hedging may reduce the firms cost of capital if it reduces the
probability of default.
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Should the Firm Hedge?
? Taxes can be a large market imperfection.
? Corporations that face progressive tax rates may find
that they pay less in taxes if they can manage earnings
by hedging than if they have,boom and bust” cycles in
their earnings stream.
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What Risk Management Products do
Firms Use?
? Most U.S,firms meet their exchange risk
management needs with forward,swap,and
options contracts.
? The greater the degree of international
involvement,the greater the firm’s use of foreign
exchange risk management.
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FINANCIAL
MANAGEMENT
EUN / RESNICK
Second Edition
13Chapter ThirteenManagement of Transaction Exposure
Chapter Objective:
This chapter discusses various methods available for
the management of transaction exposure facing
multinational firms.
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reserved,
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Chapter Outline
? Forward Market Hedge
? Money Market Hedge
? Options Market Hedge
? Cross-Hedging Minor Currency Exposure
? Hedging Contingent Exposure
? Hedging Recurrent Exposure with Swap Contracts
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Chapter Outline (continued)
? Hedging Through Invoice Currency
? Hedging via Lead and Lag
? Exposure Netting
? Should the Firm Hedge?
? What Risk Management Products do Firms Use?
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Forward Market Hedge
? If you are going to owe foreign currency in the
future,agree to buy the foreign currency now by
entering into long position in a forward contract.
? If you are going to receive foreign currency in the
future,agree to sell the foreign currency now by
entering into short position in a forward contract.
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You are a U.S,importer of British woolens and
have just ordered next year’s inventory.
Payment of ￡100M is due in one year.
Question,How can you fix the cash outflow in
dollars?
Forward Market Hedge,an Example
Answer,One way is to put yourself in a position
that delivers ￡100M in one year—a long
forward contract on the pound,
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Money Market Hedge
? This is the same idea as covered interest arbitrage
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Money Market Hedge
The importer of British woolens can hedge his ￡100 million
payable with a money market hedge:
Borrow $112.05 million in the U.S.
Translate $112.05 million into pounds at the spot rate S($/￡)
= $1.25/￡
Invest ￡89.64 million in the UK at i￡= 11.56% for one year.
In one year your investment will have grown to ￡100 million.
Spot exchange rate S($/￡) = $1.25/￡
360-day forward rate F360($/￡) = $1.20/￡
U.S,discount rate i$ = 7.10%
British discount rate i￡ = 11.56%
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Money Market Hedge
Where do the numbers come from?
We owe our supplier ￡100 million in one year—so we know that we need
to have an investment with a future value of ￡100 million,Since i￡=
11.56% we need to invest ￡89.64 million at the start of the year.
How many dollars will it take to acquire ￡89.64 million at the start
of the year if the spot rate S($/￡) = $1.25/￡?
1, 1 1 5 6
0 0? 9, 6 4 ?
, 2 5
$ 1, 0 0? 9, 6 4$ 1 1 2, 0 5 ??
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Money Market Hedge
Suppose you want to hedge a payable in the amount
of ￡y with a maturity of T:
i,Borrow $x at t = 0 on a loan at a rate of i$ per year.
(Note that $x = ￡y/(1+ i￡)T at the spot rate.)
ii,Exchange $x for ￡y/(1+ i￡)T at the prevailing spot rate,
invest ￡y/(1+ i￡)T at i￡for the maturity of the payable to
achieve ￡y.
At maturity,you will owe a $x(1 + i$),
Your British investments will have grown enough to service
your payable and you will have no exposure to the pound.
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Money Market Hedge
Suppose you want to hedge a ￡ receivable in the
amount of ￡y with a maturity of T:
i,Borrow ￡y/(1+ i￡)T at t = 0.
ii,Exchange ￡y/(1+ i￡)T for $x at the prevailing
spot rate.
At maturity,you will owe a $y which can be paid
with your receivable,
You will have no exposure to the dollar-pound
exchange rate.
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Options Market Hedge
? Options provide a flexible hedge against the
downside,while preserving the upside potential.
? To hedge a foreign currency payable buy calls on
the currency.
? If the currency appreciates,your call option lets you
buy the currency at the exercise price of the call.
? To hedge a foreign currency receivable buy puts
on the currency.
? If the currency depreciates,your put option lets you sell
the currency for the exercise price.
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Cross-Hedging
Minor Currency Exposure
? The major currencies are the,U.S,dollar,
Canadian dollar,British pound,French franc,
Swiss franc,Mexican peso,Italian lira,German
mark,Japanese yen,and now the euro.
? Everything else is a minor currency,like the
Polish zloty,
? It is difficult,expensive,or impossible to use
financial contracts to hedge exposure to minor
currencies.
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Cross-Hedging
Minor Currency Exposure
? Cross-Hedging involves hedging a position in one
asset by taking a position in another asset.
? The effectiveness of cross-hedging depends upon
how well the assets are correlated.
? An example would be a U.S,importer with liabilities in
Czech koruna hedging with long or short forward
contracts on the euro,If the koruna is expensive when
the euro is expensive,or even if the koruna is cheap
when the euro is expensive it can be a good hedge,But
they need to co-vary in a predictable way.
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Hedging Contingent Exposure
? If only certain contingencies give rise to exposure,
then options can be effective insurance.
? For example,if your firm is bidding on a
hydroelectric dam project in Canada,you will
need to hedge the Canadian-U.S,dollar exchange
rate only if your bid wins the contract,Your firm
can hedge this contingent risk with options.
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Hedging Recurrent Exposure
with Swaps
? Recall that swap contracts can be viewed as a
portfolio of forward contracts.
? Firms that have recurrent exposure can very likely
hedge their exchange risk at a lower cost with
swaps than with a program of hedging each
exposure as it comes along.
? It is also the case that swaps are available in
longer-terms than futures and forwards.
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Hedging through
Invoice Currency
? The firm can shift,share,or diversify:
? shift exchange rate risk
?by invoicing foreign sales in home currency
? share exchange rate risk
?by pro-rating the currency of the invoice between foreign and
home currencies
? diversify exchange rate risk
?by using a market basket index
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Hedging via Lead and Lag
? If a currency is appreciating,pay those bills
denominated in that currency early; let customers
in that country pay late as long as they are paying
in that currency.
? If a currency is depreciating,give incentives to
customers who owe you in that currency to pay
early; pay your obligations denominated in that
currency as late as your contracts will allow.
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Exposure Netting
? A multinational firm should not consider deals in
isolation,but should focus on hedging the firm as
a portfolio of currency positions.
? As an example,consider a U.S.-based multinational
with Korean won receivables and Japanese yen
payables,Since the won and the yen tend to move in
similar directions against the U.S,dollar,the firm can
just wait until these accounts come due and just buy yen
with won.
? Even if it’s not a perfect hedge,it may be too expensive
or impractical to hedge each currency separately.
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Exposure Netting
? Many multinational firms use a reinvoice center,
Which is a financial subsidiary that nets out the
intrafirm transactions.
? Once the residual exposure is determined,then the
firm implements hedging.
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider a U.S,MNC with three subsidiaries and the
following foreign exchange transactions:
$10 $35 $40$30
$20
$25
$60
$40
$10
$30
$20
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$10 $35 $40$30
$20
$25
$60
$40
$10
$30
$20
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$10 $35 $40$30
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$20
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$10 $35 $40$30
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$20
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$10 $35 $10
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$20
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$10 $35 $10
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$20
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$10 $35 $10
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$10 $35 $10
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$25 $10
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$25 $10
$25
$60
$40
$10
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$25 $10
$25
$20 $10
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$25 $10
$25
$20 $10
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Bilateral Netting would reduce the number of foreign
exchange transactions by half:
$25 $10$15
$20
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$25 $10$15
$20
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$15 $10$15
$20
$10
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$15 $10$15
$20
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$15 $10$15
$20
$10
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$15 $10$15
$30
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$15 $10$15
$30
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$15 $10$15
$30
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$10
$15
$30
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$10
$15
$30
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$10
$15
$30
$10
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$10
$15
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$10
$15
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Consider simplifying the bilateral netting with multilateral
netting:
$15
$40
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Clearly,multilateral netting can simplify things greatly,
$15
$40
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Exposure Netting,an Example
Compare this:
$10 $35 $40$30
$20
$25
$60
$40
$10
$30
$20
$30
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Exposure Netting,an Example
With this:
$15
$40
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Should the Firm Hedge?
? Not everyone agrees that a firm should hedge:
? Hedging by the firm may not add to shareholder wealth
if the shareholders can manage exposure themselves.
? Hedging may not reduce the non-diversifiable risk of
the firm,Therefore shareholders who hold a diversified
portfolio are not helped when management hedges.
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Should the Firm Hedge?
? In the presence of market imperfections,the firm
should hedge.
? Information Asymmetry
?The managers may have better information than the
shareholders.
? Differential Transactions Costs
?The firm may be able to hedge at better prices than the
shareholders.
? Default Costs
?Hedging may reduce the firms cost of capital if it reduces the
probability of default.
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Should the Firm Hedge?
? Taxes can be a large market imperfection.
? Corporations that face progressive tax rates may find
that they pay less in taxes if they can manage earnings
by hedging than if they have,boom and bust” cycles in
their earnings stream.
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What Risk Management Products do
Firms Use?
? Most U.S,firms meet their exchange risk
management needs with forward,swap,and
options contracts.
? The greater the degree of international
involvement,the greater the firm’s use of foreign
exchange risk management.
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