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Volume 1, Issue:1
(December 2009) Published Online: December 21th 2009
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Abstract | Full
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Title:
Hedging Transaction Exposure to Foreign Exchange Risk by Using
Risk Sharing Arrangements and Currency Collars
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Author(s):
Imad A. Moosa
Monash University, Australia
Send correspondance to Imad A. Moosa, Department of Accounting
and Finance, Monash University, P O Box 197, Caulfield East,
Victoria 3145, Australia.
E-mail: imad.moosa@buseco.monash.edu.au.
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History:
Received 5 November 2009
Accepted
8 December 2009
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Abstract:
A hybrid operational hedging technique is proposed to shift
some of the foreign exchange risk from the importer to the
exporter when the currency of the exporter is the currency
of invoicing. This technique requires the conversion of the
cash flows at a range of exchange rates calculated as some
weighted average of the rates used under the risk-shifting
techniques of risk sharing arrangements and currency collars.
The problem of choosing the value of the parameter that determines
how much of the risk is to be shifted to the exporter can
be resolved by fine tuning the weights in such a way as to
eliminate the sensitivity of the cash flows to the value of
this parameter. The theoretical results are demonstrated with
the use of monthly data on the exchange rate between the British
pound and the U.S. dollar over the period January 1993-October
2006.
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| Keywords:
Foreign Exchange Risk, Currency Collars, Risk Sharing Arrangements. |
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