- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 International Finance: An Overview
- 2 A Primer on Exchange Rate Behavior
- 3 Markets and International Interest Rate Parity
- 4 Corporate Risk Management in the Multinational Firm
- 5 Central Banks and Economic Policy after the Crisis: What Have We Learned?
- 6 International Financial Integration: Benefits, Costs, and Policy Challenges
- 7 Links between International Financial Markets and Volatility
- 8 Challenges in Financial Regulation
- 9 International Equity Markets: Risk and Return
- 10 International Corporate Debt Markets
- 11 Financing International Trade
- 12 Cross-Listing Behavior
- 13 International Regulatory Regimes
- 14 Asset Pricing in an International Setting
- 15 The Home Bias Puzzle in Equity Portfolios
- 16 Investing in Emerging and Developing Markets
- 17 International Investment Patterns
- 18 Integrated versus Segmented Capital Markets: Implications for Financial Decision-Making
- 19 Multinational Capital Budgeting: Valuing Cross-Border Investments
- 20 Multinational Restructuring
- 21 Corporate Management of Foreign Currency Risk: Conceptual Framework, Policies, and Strategies
- 22 Multinational Cost of Capital and Capital Structure
- 23 Dividend Policy across Countries
- 24 International Governance and Convergence
- 25 Business Bankruptcies across Countries and the Law
- 26 Alternative Financing Methods
- 27 Differences in Ownership Structures across Countries
- 28 Understanding Financial Market Failures
- Discussion Questions and Answers
- Index
Corporate Risk Management in the Multinational Firm
Corporate Risk Management in the Multinational Firm
- Chapter:
- (p.62) 4 Corporate Risk Management in the Multinational Firm
- Source:
- International Finance
- Author(s):
ULRICH HOMMEL
TOBIAS PROKESCH
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Multinational companies are nowadays operating in a highly globalized and increasingly integrated business environment. They need to cope with rising volatilities, especially in currency markets, as well as a rising prevalence of structural breaks in all markets in which they operate. This chapter reviews the academic literature on corporate risk management activities as well as the limitations of academic research from a practitioner's perspective. Starting from a general discussion of the corporate risk universe, the chapter examines the contributions on risk exposure measurement and risk mitigation before turning attention to value-based rationales for firm-level risk management. Next, the chapter shows that the academic literature has provided few insights on two aspects of key relevance for corporate risk managers: (1) the proper mixing of financial and operative hedging strategies when dealing with currency risk exposures and (2) the maturity of corporate hedges. The chapter closes with a review of the norms and regulations governing the risk management function in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany.
Keywords: currency risk, risk exposure, risk management, hedging, cash flow at risk
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 International Finance: An Overview
- 2 A Primer on Exchange Rate Behavior
- 3 Markets and International Interest Rate Parity
- 4 Corporate Risk Management in the Multinational Firm
- 5 Central Banks and Economic Policy after the Crisis: What Have We Learned?
- 6 International Financial Integration: Benefits, Costs, and Policy Challenges
- 7 Links between International Financial Markets and Volatility
- 8 Challenges in Financial Regulation
- 9 International Equity Markets: Risk and Return
- 10 International Corporate Debt Markets
- 11 Financing International Trade
- 12 Cross-Listing Behavior
- 13 International Regulatory Regimes
- 14 Asset Pricing in an International Setting
- 15 The Home Bias Puzzle in Equity Portfolios
- 16 Investing in Emerging and Developing Markets
- 17 International Investment Patterns
- 18 Integrated versus Segmented Capital Markets: Implications for Financial Decision-Making
- 19 Multinational Capital Budgeting: Valuing Cross-Border Investments
- 20 Multinational Restructuring
- 21 Corporate Management of Foreign Currency Risk: Conceptual Framework, Policies, and Strategies
- 22 Multinational Cost of Capital and Capital Structure
- 23 Dividend Policy across Countries
- 24 International Governance and Convergence
- 25 Business Bankruptcies across Countries and the Law
- 26 Alternative Financing Methods
- 27 Differences in Ownership Structures across Countries
- 28 Understanding Financial Market Failures
- Discussion Questions and Answers
- Index
