Hedging - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2004 (Revised September 2008)
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March 2013
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FX Risk Hedging at EADS

Keywords: Derivatives; Foreign Exchange; Options; Forward Contract; Aerospace; Europe; Risk Management; Futures and Commodity Futures; Europe

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March 2005 (Revised March 2006)
Case

Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Competitive Exposures

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen

How can a multinational firm analyze and manage currency risks that arise from competitive exposures? General Motors has a substantial competitive exposure to the Japanese yen. Although the risks GM faces from the depreciating yen are widely acknowledged, the company's... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Currency Exchange Rate; Competition; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; International Finance; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Risk and Uncertainty; Auto Industry

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22 Dec 2015
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After ‘The Big Short,’ Hedge Funders Lose Cultural Capital

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Hedging Asian Options: Closed-Form Solutions Using the Malliavin Calculus

Hedging path-dependent options requires non-standard tools because the price processes no longer have smooth stochastic differentials. I show how the Malliavin calculus can be used to overcome the specific difficulties introduced by the averaging behavior of... View Details

March 2005 (Revised January 2006)
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Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transactional and Translational Exposures

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen

How should a multinational firm manage foreign exchange exposures? Examines transactional and translational exposures and alternative responses to these exposures by analyzing two specific hedging decisions by General Motors. Describes General Motors' corporate hedging... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Currency Exchange Rate; Expansion; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Risk and Uncertainty; International Finance; Auto Industry

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May 2011
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Higher Risk, Lower Returns: What Hedge Fund Investors Really Earn

By: Ilia Dichev and Gwen Yu

The returns of hedge fund investors depend not only on the returns of the hedge funds they hold but also on the timing and magnitude of their capital flows in and out of the funds. We use dollar-weighted returns (a form of IRR) to assess the properties of actual... View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment Return; Capital Markets; Market Timing; Currency

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January 2024
Technical Note

Hedging Currency Risk of Foreign Investments

By: Wenxin Du and Luis M. Viceira

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July 1998
Article

New Derivative and Hedging Accounting Standard

By: David F. Hawkins

Keywords: Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Accounting; Standards

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10 Dec 2010
News

More Evidence of Hedge Fund Futility

September 2005
Teaching Note

Hedging Currency Risks at AIFS (TN)

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs

Keywords: Currency; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry

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April 22, 2012
Article

U.S. Hedge Funds Rules Relaxed by Accident

By: Robert C. Pozen

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September – October 2011
Article

The Return Experience of Hedge Fund Investors

By: Ilia Dichev and Gwen Yu

Keywords: Investment

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October 1994 (Revised November 1995)
Case

N.V. Philips Electronics - Currency Hedging Policies

By: Richard F. Meyer

Describes Philips Electronics' policies and problems relating to foreign exchange risk and hedging. Explains centralization versus decentralization of currency hedging, economic role versus transaction role, the difficulties of capturing the necessary information... View Details

Keywords: Business Divisions; Currency Exchange Rate; International Finance; Globalization; Policy; Information Management; Management; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty

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