Firm Strategy and Economic Exposure to Foreign Exchange Rate Movements

Firm Strategy and Economic Exposure to Foreign Exchange Rate Movements

Exchange Rate Exposure and Firm Dynamics

This paper develops a firm-dynamics model with heterogenous firms and endogenous currency debt composition to jointly study financing and investment decisions in developing economies. In our model, foreign currency borrowing arises from a trade-off between aggregate deviations from the risk-free uncovered interest rate parity and firms’ growth potential. Crucially, there is crosssectional heter...

The Foreign Exchange Rate Exposure of Nations ∗

Following the well-known approach by Adler and Dumas (1984) we evaluate the foreign exchange rate exposure of nations. Results based on data from 27 countries show that national foreign exchange rate exposures are significantly related to the current balance variables of corresponding economies. JEL Classification: G15, F31

Foreign exchange rate exposure: Evidence from Canada

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: G32 G12 G01 F31 D53 D82 Keywords: Financial risk Foreign exchange rate Nonlinear exposure Asymmetric exposure Nonparametric methods Using weekly data from 2003 to 2011, this paper examines the presence of exchange rate exposure in thirteen Canadian industry sectors. This study contributes to the literature in a number of ways: (i) it considers the prese...

Firm Liquidation and Economic Crisis under Unexpected Exchange Rate Shock

This paper studies the causes, mechanisms and consequences of decreasing firm value and welfare loss in an economy under a fixed exchange rate regime when there is an unexpected appreciation in domestic currency. We also study the possible economic crisis caused by the exchange rate shock. We consider the established production capacity as well as the training of firmspecific labors before prod...