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Resolving the exposure puzzle: The many facets of exchange rate exposure

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  • Bartram, Söhnke M.
  • Brown, Gregory W.
  • Minton, Bernadette A.

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Theory predicts sizeable exchange rate (FX) exposure for many firms. However, empirical research has not documented such exposures. To examine this discrepancy, we extend prior theoretical results to model a global firm's FX exposure and show empirically that firms pass through part of currency changes to customers and utilize both operational and financial hedges. For a typical sample firm, pass-through and operational hedging each reduce exposure by 10-15%. Financial hedging with foreign debt, and to a lesser extent FX derivatives, decreases exposure by about 40%. The combination of these factors reduces FX exposures to observed levels.

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Volume (Year): 95 (2010)
Issue (Month): 2 (February)
Pages: 148-173

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Keywords: Competition Hedging FX exposure Derivatives International finance;

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