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- October 1995 (Revised July 1996)
- Case
Aspen Technology, Inc.: Currency Hedging Review
By: Peter Tufano
The chief financial officer of a rapidly growing U.S.-based software firm that sells its process-control software to industrial users around the globe must review the goals, strategies, and policies of the firm's currency hedging program. This review is prompted by... View Details
- January 1995 (Revised May 1997)
- Case
Syscom Computers
By: Kenneth A. Froot, Peter Tufano and Chris L Marshall
Discusses a company deciding what it should do to manage its worldwide hedging operations. View Details
- December 1994 (Revised June 1995)
- Case
Tiffany & Co.--1993
By: W. Carl Kester and Kendall Backstrand
The restructuring of Tiffany's retailing agreement with Mitsukoshi Ltd. in 1993 exposed Tiffany to substantial yen/dollar exchange rate volatility that it had not previously faced. This new exposure requires Tiffany to establish risk management policies and practices.... View Details
- 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
- 1993
- Working Paper
Currency Hedging Over Long Horizons
By: K. A. Froot
This paper reexamines the widely-held wisdom that the currency exposure of international investments should be entirely hedged. It finds that the previously documented ability of hedges to reduce portfolio return variance holds at short horizons, but not at long... View Details
- March 1993
- Teaching Note
Note on Foreign Currency Swaps (TN)
By: W. Carl Kester
Teaching Note for (9-292-043). View Details
- 1992
- Chapter
Exchange Rate Forecasting Techniques, Survey Data, and Implications for the Foreign Exchange Market
By: J. Frankel and K. A. Froot
Keywords: Currencies; Exchange Rates; International Macroeconomics; Monetary Policy; Currency Controls; Fixed Exchange Rates; Floating Exchange Rates; Currency Bands; Currency Zones; Currency Areas; Rational Expectations; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Asset Pricing; Forecasting and Prediction; Policy
- November 1991 (Revised April 2002)
- Background Note
Note on Foreign Currency Swaps
By: W. Carl Kester
Provides descriptive background about the development of an international market for currency swaps and, by means of a detailed example, instructs readers in the determination of swap flows and all-in costs of financing using market swap rates. A rewritten version of... View Details
Keywords: Currency
- July 1991
- Case
Managing the U.S. Dollar in the 1980s
By: W. Carl Kester and Richard P. Melnick
Provides numerical data and alternative explanations concerning the U.S. dollar's rise and subsequent fall in value from 1981 through 1987. Students are challenged to study the evidence and make their own inferences concerning the dollar's movements and the degree of... View Details
- Article
Anomalies: Foreign Exchange
By: K. A. Froot and R. Thaler
- May 1990
- Article
Chartists, Fundamentalists, and Trading in the Foreign Exchange Market
By: J. Frankel and K. A. Froot
- April 1988 (Revised May 1992)
- Case
Gaz de France
By: W. Carl Kester
The treasurer of Gaz de France is an aggressive, proactive manager of his company's liability structure, running one of the largest swap books of any non-financial corporation in the world. Currency futures, interbank forwards, and currency options are also frequently... View Details
- September 1987 (Revised November 1992)
- Background Note
Note on Transaction and Translation Exposure
By: W. Carl Kester and Richard P. Melnick
Describes the transaction and translation exposures that companies doing business internationally face when foreign exchange rates change. Also discusses how to measure and cover both types of exposure. Covering techniques are demonstrated using examples of forward... View Details
- February 1987 (Revised September 1991)
- Background Note
Foreign Exchange Market, Background Note and Problem Set, The
By: W. Carl Kester and Richard P. Melnick
Discusses the background of the foreign exchange market. This includes information about the participants and how the market operates. The problem set verses students in the arithmetic in the many common foreign exchange problems such as calculating forward premium and... View Details
Keywords: Financial Markets
- January 1987 (Revised September 1991)
- Case
Walt Disney Co.'s Yen Financing
By: W. Carl Kester and William B. Allen
Walt Disney is considering hedging future yen inflows from Disney Tokyo. It is evaluating techniques using FX Forwards, swaps, and Yen term borrowings. Goldman Sachs presents a rather unusual but potentially attractive solution: Disney could issue ECU Eurobonds and... View Details
- January 1987 (Revised November 1991)
- Case
R.J. Reynolds International Financing
By: W. Carl Kester and William B. Allen
Reynolds must source a substantial portion of the financing of its Nabisco acquisition in offshore bond markets. Morgan Guaranty has proposed a yen/dollar dual currency Eurobond that could be hedged into dollars. This structure is compared to Eurodollar Bonds, Euroyen... View Details
- 1986
- Other Unpublished Work
Capital Flight, Policy Credibility, and the Option Value of Foreign Exchange
By: K. A. Froot and S. van Wijnbergen
- January 1982
- Background Note
Exchange Rate Determination and Foreign Exchange Equilibrium Conditions, Study Note
By: Thomas R. Piper
- December 1981 (Revised July 1991)
- Case
Ocean Drilling, Inc.
By: Thomas R. Piper
Management must choose between two mutually exclusive bids to build two drilling rigs. Both bids involve attractive export credit financing denominated in foreign currencies. View Details
- December 1980 (Revised January 1994)
- Case
International Foodstuffs
By: David E. Bell
Describes three fairly routine instances in which considerations of risk exposure in foreign exchange are necessary. The three are a delayed payment for a grain shipment, a foreign subsidiary facing devaluation of its domestic currency, and a foreign acquisition. The... View Details