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Interest Rate Risk Management in Major Finnish Firms

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  • Antti Hakkarainen
  • Eero Kasanen
  • Vesa Puttonen

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The interest rate policies of Finnish firms appear risk aversive, but hedging decisions are influenced by market view. Managers find they can forecast trends in interest rate development, and employ the forecasts in the choice of debt and hedging instruments. The use of risk assessment methods and hedging instruments are related to firm size but not to leverage. Most frequently employed hedging instruments are interest rate swaps and forward rate agreements. The respondents find their firms' interest rate risk management is successful, but performance is seldom measured against an explicitly defined benchmark.

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  • Antti Hakkarainen & Eero Kasanen & Vesa Puttonen, 1997. "Interest Rate Risk Management in Major Finnish Firms," European Financial Management, European Financial Management Association, vol. 3(3), pages 255-268, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:eufman:v:3:y:1997:i:3:p:255-268
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-036X.00043
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    1. Gordon M. Bodnar & Costanza Consolandi & Giampaolo Gabbi & Ameeta Jaiswal†Dale, 2013. "Risk Management for Italian Non†Financial Firms: Currency and Interest Rate Exposure," European Financial Management, European Financial Management Association, vol. 19(5), pages 887-910, November.
    2. Emira Kozarevic & Meldina Kokorovic Jukan & Beriz Civic, 2014. "The Use of Financial Derivatives in Emerging Market Economies: An Empirical Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina's Non-Financial Firms," Research in World Economy, Research in World Economy, Sciedu Press, vol. 5(1), pages 39-48, March.
    3. Erasmo Giambona & John R. Graham & Campbell R. Harvey & Gordon M. Bodnar, 2018. "The Theory and Practice of Corporate Risk Management: Evidence from the Field," Financial Management, Financial Management Association International, vol. 47(4), pages 783-832, December.
    4. Söhnke Bartram, 2002. "The Interest Rate Exposure of Nonfinancial Corporations," Review of Finance, European Finance Association, vol. 6(1), pages 101-125.
    5. Délèze, Frédéric & Korkeamäki, Timo, 2018. "Interest rate risk management with debt issues: Evidence from Europe," Journal of Financial Stability, Elsevier, vol. 36(C), pages 1-11.

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