JÖNKÖPING INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL J ÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY Foreign Exchange-Rate Exposure of Swedish Firms BACHELOR THESIS in ECONOMICS Authors: ZAHARI STOYANOV SALEEM AHMAD Head Supervisor PROFESSOR ÅKE ANDERSSON Deputy Supervisor PH.D. CANDIDATE SARA JOHANSSON Jönköping AUTUMN 2006 Bachelor Thesis in Economics Title: Foreign Exchange-Rate Exposure of Swedish Firms Authors: Zahari Stoyanov and Saleem Ahmad Tutors: Professor Åke Andersson Ph
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Exchange Rate Volatility: Impact on Industry Portfolios in Indian Stock Market K N Badhani*‚ Rajani Chhimwal** and Janki Suyal*** This study examines the interaction between changes in the exchange rate of Indian Rupee and returns on different BSE-based indices representing the firms of different sizes and industries. In absolute sense‚ the returns on all the stock portfolios are found to be positively correlated with the external value of Indian Rupee. However‚ the analysis with an extended market
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What implication do fluctuations in foreign exchange rates have on the pricing decisions of export marketing managers? Globalization is no longer an abstraction but a stark reality that virtually all firms‚ large and a small‚ face. Firms that want to survive in the 21st century must confront all encompassing force that pervades every aspect of business. However‚ exchange rate fluctuation is an issue that affects the decisions marketing managers make about pricing. Management faces different decision
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The Foreign Exchange Management Act (1999) or in short FEMA has been introduced as a replacement for earlier Foreign Exchange Regulation Act (FERA). FEMA became an act on the 1st day of June‚ 2000. FEMA was introduced because the FERA didn’t fit in with post-liberalisation policies. A significant change that the FEMA brought with it‚ was that it made all offenses regarding foreign exchange civil offenses‚ as opposed to criminal offenses as dictated by FERA. The main objective behind the Foreign
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Company‚ Inc. GM Financial service mainly include purchasing retail automobile installment sales contracts originated by GM and non-GM franchised and independent dealers connect to the sale of used and new automobiles. For Royal Dutch /Shell Group of Companies Royal Dutch / Shell Group of Companies‚ also can be translated as “Shell”‚ is the world ’s second largest oil company‚ founded in 1890‚ headquartered in The Hague‚ the Netherlands‚ and is the company which is merged by the Royal Dutch Petroleum
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China ’s Exchange Rate Peg concerning Trade Policy with U.S. Overview of the Problem The U.S. and China trade imbalance continue to be on the rise. U.S. manufacturing firms and workers voiced complaints over the competitive challenges posed by cheap Chinese imports. China ’s trade policy of pegging its currency‚ the yuan‚ to the U.S. dollar has enabled an unfair trade advantage according to the U.S. Some have gone as far as calling it "currency manipulation." The outcome has been loss of
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The major players in the foreign exchange arena are commercial banks ‚investment banks‚central banks‚trading instituitions ‚hedge funds‚corporations‚high net worth individuals and individual investor . Commercial and investment banks are the natural players in foreign exchange.Foreign exchange has the perfect characteristics for banks.It is profitable‚the spot market provides limited credit exposure ‚the forward market What is FOREX? The Foreign Exchange market‚ also referred to as the "FOREX"
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INTRODUCTION TO FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKETS : The term paper I am going to discuss is about the foreign exchange markets : Definition : The foreign exchange market is the organizational framework within which individuals‚ firms and banks buy and sell foreign currencies or foreign exchange. The exchange rate of a currency in the market depends on economic factors‚ political conditions of the countries and the market psychology. Functions of Foreign Exchange market : The basic and primary function
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Exchange rate determination is Two-way process and following are factors that Influence Exchange Rates Floating rates are determined by the market forces of supply and demand. How much demand there is in relation to supply of a currency will determine that currency ’s value in relation to another currency. For example‚ if the demand for U.S. dollars by Europeans increases‚ the supply-demand relationship will cause an increase in price of the U.S. dollar in relation to the euro. There are countless
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATE SENSITIVITY AND STOCK PRICE : ESTIMATING ECONOMIC EXPOSURE OF TURKISH COMPANIES INTRODUCTION Variability in exchange rate is a major source of macroeconomic uncertainity affecting firms. After the 1970 ’s‚ the rapid expansion in international trade and adoption of floating exchange rate regimes by many countries led to increase exchange rate volatility. The firm ’s exposure to exchange rate risk increased. In the literature three types of exposure under floating exchange
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