Management and Control of Foreign Exchange Risk / Edition 1

by Laurent L. Jacque

Overview

Since I first published Management of Foreign Exchange Risk (Lexington Books, 1978), financial innovation-spurred, in part, by exploding volatility in currency prices-has revolutionized the theory and praxis of foreign exchange risk management. Old-fashioned forward contracts have surrendered market share to currency swaps and options as well as to their perpetually multiplying derivatives. Interestingly, forex derivatives now provide a low cost and highly efficient method of transferring risk from the firms that are exposed to risk but which would rather not be (i. e. , risk-hedgers) to those which are not exposed but which-in exchange for a fee-would assume some exposure to risk (i. e. , risk­ bearers). Perhaps more importantly, foreign exchange risk management, which was once a fairly mechanical task confmed to the international treasury function, is now permeating global strategic management. Indeed, since the demise of the Bretton Woods system of pegged exchange rates, the cost of forex hedging instruments has fallen so dramatically that firms can readily avail themselves of hedging products which can reduce unwanted risk, thereby potentially gaining a competitive advantage over rivals that do not. Management and Control of Foreign Exchange Risk has grown out of a fundamental revision of my earlier work published almost 20 years ago. In the process, my thinking about risk and its mathematics has greatly benefitted from my association with John Cozzolino and Charles Tapiero.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792380887
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	11/30/1997
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Laurent L. Jacque is a Professor of International Finance and Banking and Director of the Program of International Business Relations at the Fletcher School (Tufts University). He is also Professor of Finance and International Business at the HEC School of Management (France).

Table of Contents

1 Determination of Spot Exchange Rates.- I. Some First Principles.- II. Floating Exchange Rates.- III. Stabilized Exchange Rates.- IV. Controlled Exchange Rates.- Summary and Conclusions.- Annotated Bibliography.- Problems.- Case Study 1.1: Hippocrates Inc..- 2 Determination of Forward Exchange Rates.- I. Forward Exchange Contracts.- II. Interest Rate Parity Theorem.- III. Modern Theory.- Summary and Conclusions.- Selected Bibliography.- Problems.- Case Study 2.1: Bookwell’s Financing Choices.- 3 Currency Futures, Options, Derivatives, and Swaps.- I. Currency Futures.- II. Currency Options.- III. Derivatives and Zero-Premia Options.- IV. Currency Swaps.- Summary and Conclusions.- Selected Bibliography.- Problems.- Case Study 3.1: Daewoo’s Unorthodox Funding Strategy.- Case Study 3.2: Intercomex: Exchange Risk in Coffee Trading.- 4 Forecasting Floating Exchange Rates.- I. Market-Based Forecasts.- II. Model-Based Forecasts: Technical vs. Econometric Modeling Approaches.- Summary and Conclusions.- Selected Bibliography.- Problems.- 5 Forecasting Pegged Yet Adjustable Exchange Rates.- I. Step 1: Assessing the Balance of Payments Outlook.- II. Step 2: Measuring the Magnitude of Required Adjustment.- III. Step 3: Timing Adjustment Policies.- IV. Step 4: Anticipating the Nature of Adjustment Policies.- Summary and Conclusions.- Appendix 5.A: The Purchasing Power Parity Hypothesis.- Selected Bibliography.- Problems.- Case Study 5.1: Morris De Minas.- 6 Accounting Exposure to Foreign Exchange Risk.- I. Transaction Exposure.- II. Translation Exposure.- Summary and Conclusions.- Selected Bibliography.- Problems.- 7 Economic Exposure to Foreign Exchange Risk.- I. A Taxonomy of Economic Exposures.- II. Inflation and Profitability.- III. Devaluation and Profitability.- IV.Towards an Operational Measure of Economic Exposure.- Summary and Conclusions.- Annotated Bibliography.- Problems.- Case Study 7.1: Euclides Engineering, Ltd..- Case Study 7.2: British Materials Corporation.- 8 Exchange Risks in International Trade.- I. The Mechanics of Hedging Transaction Exposures.- II. Eliminating Foreign Exchange Risk in Long-term Contracts.- III. Exchange Risk in International Bidding.- IV. The Optimal Hedging Decision.- Summary and Conclusions.- Appendix 8. A: An Introduction to the Theory of Expected Utility for Foreign Exchange Risk Management.- Selected Bibliography.- Problems.- Case Study 8.1: Whirlpool Appliances, Inc..- 9 Optimal Currency Denomination in Long-Term Debt Financing.- I. Expected Cost of Foreign Currency Financing.- II. Risk-adjusted Cost of Foreign Debt Financing.- Summary and Conclusions.- Selected Bibliography.- Problems.- Case Study 9.1: BC Hydro.- 10 Hedging Translation Exposure.- I. The Mechanics of Contractual Hedging.- II. The Mechanics of Financial Hedging.- III. Hedging in a Multicurrency World: A Risk-Preference Framework.- Summary and Conclusions.- Selected Bibliography.- Problems.- Case Study 10.1: Gillette International Finance.- 11 Exchange Rates and the International Control Conundrum.- I. The International Control Conundrum.- II. Mapping the Currency Space.- III. Value-Based Contingent Budgeting with Imperfect Currency Pass Through.- IV. Estimating Exchange Rate Pass Through.- Summary and Conclusions.- Selected Bibliography.- Case Study 11.1: Multiquimica Do Brasil.- Index of Authors.- Index of Subjects.- Solutions to Selected Problems.- About the Author.