Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Berk DeMarzo & Harford The Corporate Finance Series)
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Author: Berk
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 23, Problem 3P
Your start-up company has negotiated a contract to provide a database installation for a manufacturing company in Poland. That firm has agreed to pay you $100,000 in three months when the installation will occur. However, it insists on paying in Polish zloty (PLN). You don’t want to lose the deal (the company is your first client!), but you are worried about the exchange rate risk. In particular, you are worried the zloty could
a. Assume that the current spot exchange rate is 2.3117 PLN per U.S. dollar and that the three month forward exchange rate is 2.2595 PLN per U.S. dollar. How many zloty should you demand in the contract to receive $100,000 in three months if you hedge the exchange rate risk with a forward contract?
b. Given the bank forward rates in (a), were short-term interest rates higher or lower in Poland than in the United States at the time? Explain.
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