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Mitigation of Foreign Direct Investment Risk and Hedging

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  • Jack E. Wahl, Udo Broll

    (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)

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Instruments of risk mitigation play an important role in managing country risk within the foreign direct investment (FDI) decision. Our study assesses country risk by state-dependent preferences and introduces futures contracts as a tool of risk mitigation. We show that foreign direct investment related country risk assessments do not matter if the multinational firm enters currency futures markets. Besides currency risk multinationals cross-hedge country risk via the derivatives market. This may explain the empirical result, why host country risk is not a significant determinant of FDI (Bevan/Estrin 2004) together with the fact that almost all (92 %) of the world’s top 500 companies enter derivatives markets for hedging purposes (ISDA 2008).

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  • Jack E. Wahl, Udo Broll, 2010. "Mitigation of Foreign Direct Investment Risk and Hedging," Frontiers in Finance and Economics, SKEMA Business School, vol. 7(1), pages 21-33, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:ffe:journl:v:7:y:2010:i:1:p:21-33
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    Keywords

    state-dependency; country risk; foreign direct investment; hedging.;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill

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