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Foreign exchange risk exposure: Survey and suggestions

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A review of exchange exposure literature can be found in this paper, with particular reference to recent developments, focusing on two primary areas of inquiry: the theoretical foundations of exchange risk exposure and the empirical evidence on the link between stock returns and currency fluctuations.
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This article is published in Journal of Multinational Financial Management.The article was published on 2006-10-01. It has received 141 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Foreign exchange risk & Exchange rate.

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International Competition and Exchange Rate Shocks: A Cross-Country Industry Analysis of Stock Returns

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Investment in capital markets

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Openness, hedging incentives and foreign exchange exposure: A firm-level multi-country study

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that firms in open economies bear higher levels of exchange exposure than those in more closed economies, and that strong corporate governance environment is associated with reduced firm-level exchange exposure.
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Offshore activities and financial vs operational hedging

TL;DR: The authors proposed an explanation based on illiquidity and the unique advantages of operational hedges and used 10-K filings to construct dynamically updated text-based measures of the offshore sale of output, purchase of input, and ownership of assets.
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Offshore Activities and Financial vs Operational Hedging

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use 10-K filings to construct dynamically updated text-based measures of the offshore sale of output, purchase of input, and ownership of assets, and find that firms use FX derivatives when they are liquid and generally available.
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Multifactor Explanations of Asset Pricing Anomalies

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that many of the CAPM average-return anomalies are related, and they are captured by the three-factor model in Fama and French (FF 1993).
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Economic Forces and the Stock Market

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test whether innovations in macroeconomic variables are risks that are rewarded in the stock market, and they find that these sources of risk are significantly priced and neither the market portfolio nor aggregate consumption are priced separately.
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Managerial discretion and optimal financing policies

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze a firm owned by atomistic shareholders who observe neither cash flows nor management's investment decisions and find that management is forced to invest too little when cash flow is low and too much when it is high.
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Empirical exchange rate models of the seventies: Do they fit out of sample?

TL;DR: The authors compared the performance of various structural and time series exchange rate models, and found that a random walk model performs as well as any estimated model at one to twelve month horizons for the dollar/pound, dollar/mark, dollar /yen and trade-weighted dollar exchange rates.
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Risk Management: Coordinating Corporate Investment and Financing Policies

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a general framework for analyzing corporate risk management policies and argue that if external sources of finance are more costly to corporations than internally generated funds, there will typically be a benefit to hedging: hedging adds value to the extent that it helps ensure that a corporation has sufficient internal funds available to take advantage of attractive investment opportunities.
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