scholarly journals Foreign exchange exposure: Evidence from the U.S. insurance industry

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donghui Li ◽  
Fariborz Moshirian ◽  
Timothy Wee ◽  
Eliza Wu
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Foreign Exchange Exposure ◽  
The U.S

An Empirical Analysis of Foreign Exchange Exposure of CNX 100 Companies

GIS Business ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sriram Mahadevan
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Foreign Exchange Rate ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Export Ratio ◽  
Exchange Rate Exposure ◽  
Ratio Size ◽  
Foreign Exchange Exposure ◽  
Exchange Rate Changes

The present study has empirically examined the level of foreign exchange exposure and its determinants of CNX 100 companies. For the purpose of study, the relationship between exchange rate changes and stock returns for a sample of 82 companies was determined for the period April 2011-March 2016. The study finds that 49% of the sample companies had significant positive foreign exchange rate exposure and the found that the companies could be exporters or net importers. To explore factors determining foreign exchange rate exposure, variables such as export ratio, import ratio, size of a company, hedging activities were regressed against the exchange exposure and the study found that none of the factors was influencing the exchange rate exposure. The study concludes that the reasons for insignificant influence of the variables could be the natural hedging practices of companies, offsetting of exports and imports and heterogeneous of the sample size. The study offers few directions for future research in this area.

scholarly journals Managing the Dollar Over Its Cycles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence L. Kreicher ◽  
Robert N. McCauley
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Exchange ◽  
Foreign Exchange Market ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Exchange Market ◽  
Foreign Exchange Intervention ◽  
Traded Goods ◽  
Service Production ◽  
Withholding Tax ◽  
The U.S

AbstractThe United States has ceded to the rest of the world managing the dollar’s value. For a generation, the U.S. authorities have all but withdrawn from the foreign exchange market. Yet the dollar does not float freely as a result of this hands-off U.S. policy. Instead, other authorities manage the dollar exchange rates, albeit separately. These authorities make heavier purchases of dollars in its downswings than in the upswings, damping its decline. Thus, the Fed finds that accommodative monetary policy transmits less to U.S. manufacturing and traded services, and relies on still lower rates to stimulate interest-sensitive housing and auto demand. The current U.S. dollar policy of naming and shaming surplus-running countries accumulating foreign exchange reserves does not seem to work. Three alternatives warrant consideration. First, the U.S. could reinstate its withholding tax on interest income received by non-residents and even add policy criteria to bilateral tax treaties. Second, the U.S. authorities could retaliate by selling dollars against the currencies of dollar-buying jurisdictions running chronic surpluses. However, either the withholding tax or such retaliatory foreign exchange intervention pose huge practical challenges. Third, the U.S. authorities could re-enter the foreign exchange market, making large-scale asset purchases in foreign currency when the dollar rises sharply against its average value. Such a policy would encourage private investment in U.S. traded goods and service production. The challenge is to set ex ante foreign exchange intervention rules to guide market participants’ expectations, even positioning them to do the authorities’ work.

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