International Financial Management
14th Edition
ISBN: 9780357130698
Author: Madura
Publisher: Cengage
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A price-taker in the foreign exchange market is
a hedger who wants to avoid risk.
a speculator who buys a currency at the current exchange rate, hoping that it will appreciate.
a market participant who takes the current exchange rate to be the equilibrium exchange rate.
a market participant who buys and sells currencies at the exchange rates quoted by large commercial banks.
Exchange rates can move up or down, and spot rates could move favourably as well as adversely. However, many companies prefer to hedge their currency risks by fixing an exchange rate now for a future transaction, even if this means that it will not be able to benefit from any favourable future movement in the exchange rate.
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Discuss the methods of hedging exposures to foreign exchange risk.
Hedgers should buy calls if they are hedging an expected outflow of foreign currency.
True or False ? Explain.
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