Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-xbtfd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-15T07:41:59.014Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Exchange Rate Risk Protection in International Business

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Yutaka Imai
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Among the risks inherent in international business operations the exchange rate risk represents one of the important considerations for the managers of multinational firms. Three techniques are well known as effective methods against the erosion of value due to the exchange rate fluctuation. These are (1) use of a forward market, (2) use of monetary balance, and (3) use of foreign currency swap arrangements. While the use of a forward market represents an effective tool against the exchange rate loss in ordinary transactions, the other two are designed for different purposes. The use of monetary balance is a protective device against the erosion of the value of the assets due to the exchange rate fluctuation, whereas the foreign currency swap is a device primarily to protect the value of the investment in countries whose currencies are “soft” in that the likelihood devaluation is so high that forward markets do not even exist.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , September 1975 , pp. 447 - 456
Copyright
Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1975

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

[1]Feldstein, M. “Uncertainty and Forward Exchange Speculation.” Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1968, pp. 182–192.Google Scholar
[2]Kindleberger, C. P.International Economics, 4th ed.Homewood, Ill.: R. D. Irvin, 1968.Google Scholar
[3]Leland, H. E. “Optimal Forward Exchange Positions.” Journal of Political Economy, March/April 1971, pp. 257–269.Google Scholar
[4]Lietaer, B. A.Financial Management of Foreign Exchanges An Operational Technique to Reduce Risk. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1971.Google Scholar
[5]Macmillan, Claude. “Swap as a Hedge in Foreign Exchange.” California Management Review, 1965.Google Scholar
[6]Weston, J. F., and Sorge, B.. International Managerial Finance. Unpublished monograph, 1972.Google Scholar
[7]Zenoff, D. B., and Zwick, J.. International Financial Management. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1969.Google Scholar