International Financial Management
14th Edition
ISBN: 9780357130698
Author: Madura
Publisher: Cengage
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How can we obtain a pay-domestic-floating, receive-foreign-fixed currency swap by using a pay-domestic-fixed, receive-foreign-fixed currency swap and an appropriate interest rate swap?
Given the following American put option prices and current underlying share price of $304.75, check to see whether the given put options violate the lower bound condition. Where you detect a violation, devise an arbitrage strategy that will yield a positive cash flow now with zero possible cash flows in the future.
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300 7.75
305 8.15
310 8.5
315 9.05
In a money-market hedge you either borrow or invest in a foreign currency at foreign interest/deposit rates and then do the opposite in the U.S. If the theory of interest rate parity (IRP) holds, a money-market hedge and forward rate should yield the same outcomes.
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What types of risks are interest rate andexchange rate swaps designed to mitigate?Why might one company prefer fixed-rate payments while another company prefers floating-ratepayments, or payments in one currency versusanother?
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