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Hedging and Nonlinear Risk Exposure

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  • Broll, Udo
  • Chow, Kong Wing
  • Wong, Kit Pong

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This paper documents some empirical evidence of nonlinear spot-futures exchange rates relationships and develops an expected utility model of an exporting firm to examine the associated economic implications. The model shows that the firm should export more (less) and adopt an over (under) hedge in an unbiased currency futures market if the spot-futures exchange rates relationships is convex (concave) rather than linear. When fairly priced currency options on futures are available, the firm should use them in conjunction with the currency futures so as to achieve better hedging against its nonlinear exchange rate risk exposure. This provides a rationale for the hedging role of options when the underlying uncertainty is nonlinear in nature. Copyright 2001 by Oxford University Press.

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  • Broll, Udo & Chow, Kong Wing & Wong, Kit Pong, 2001. "Hedging and Nonlinear Risk Exposure," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 53(2), pages 281-296, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:oxecpp:v:53:y:2001:i:2:p:281-96
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    1. Broll, Udo & Wong, Kit Pong, 2002. "Optimal full-hedging under state-dependent preferences," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 42(5), pages 937-943.
    2. Aysun, Uluc & Guldi, Melanie, 2011. "Exchange rate exposure: A nonparametric approach," Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, vol. 12(4), pages 321-337.
    3. Mark Manfredo & Timothy Richards, 2009. "Hedging with weather derivatives: a role for options in reducing basis risk," Applied Financial Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(2), pages 87-97.
    4. Udo Broll & B. Michael Gilroy & Elmar Lukas, 2007. "Managing Credit Risk With Credit Derivatives," Annals of Financial Economics (AFE), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 3(01), pages 1-13.
    5. Broll, Udo & Eckwert, Bernhard & Wong, Kit Pong, 2010. "International trade and the role of market transparency," Dresden Discussion Paper Series in Economics 08/10, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Economics.
    6. Broll, Udo & Eckwert, Bernhard, 2011. "Information value, export and hedging," Dresden Discussion Paper Series in Economics 03/11, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Economics.
    7. Udo Broll & Kit Wong, 2010. "Banking firm and hedging over the business cycle," Portuguese Economic Journal, Springer;Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao, vol. 9(1), pages 29-33, April.
    8. Andreas Röthig, 2009. "Microeconomic Risk Management and Macroeconomic Stability," Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer, number 978-3-642-01565-6, December.
    9. Broll, Udo & Wong, Kit Pong, 2003. "Capital structure and the firm under uncertainty," Dresden Discussion Paper Series in Economics 20/03, Technische Universität Dresden, Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Economics.
    10. Broll, Udo & Pelster, Matthias & Kit, Pong Wong, 2021. "Export under risk and expectation dependence," CEPIE Working Papers 02/21, Technische Universität Dresden, Center of Public and International Economics (CEPIE).
    11. Lien, Donald & Wong, Kit Pong, 2004. "Optimal bidding and hedging in international markets," Journal of International Money and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 23(5), pages 785-798, September.

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