Case “Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Transitional and Transactional Exposures” Issues: 1. Should multinational firms hedge foreign exchange rate risk? They should to better manage the foreign exchange risks. If not‚ what are the consequences? The gains in the foreign country would contribute less when the foreign currency depreciated against the home country’s currency. If so‚ how should they decide which exposures to hedge? The firm should focus on the importance of hedging
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Exchange rate movement has been an important subject of macroeconomic analysis and market surveillance. Despite its importance‚ forecasting the exchange rate level has been a challenge for academics and market practitioners since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system. Empirical results from many of the exchange rate forecasting models in the literature have not yielded satisfactory results. This paper is constructed for the purpose of comparing the forecast performance of various competing models
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Foreign Branch Meaning of Foreign Branches: Foreign branches are independent branches which are operating in foreign countries. Accounting in respect of Foreign Branches: Accounting in respect of foreign branches is done in the books of the branch as well as in the books of the Head Office. Accounting at Branch: As the foreign branch is an independent branch‚ it keeps a complete set of books on the double entry system‚ prepares all the necessary accounts including the account of
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TO PAKISTAN 9 Fluctuation In Remittances 10 Detailed Analysis and Impact of Foreign Remittances 12 Findings of Different Analyst on Foreign Remittances 13 Skilled and Unskilled Labor 15 Remittances and Migration in Pakistan 17 Remittances 17 Migration 19 Methods Transferring Remittances 22 Welfare Programs of the Overseas Pakistanis Foundation 23 Recommendations for Optimizing Migration 24 FOREIGN REMITTANCES IN INDIA 25 Importance on Indian economy 25 Historical Perspective
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BIDS-PRP WORKING PAPER SERIES Exchange Rate Policy under Floating Regime in Bangladesh An Assessment and Strategic Policy Options Working Paper No. 2 Monzur Hossain * Mansur Ahmed∗∗ October‚ 2009 * Research Fellow‚ Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) ∗∗ Research Associate‚ Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) BIDS-PRP WORKING PAPER SERIES Working Paper No. 2 EXCHANGE RATE POLICY UNDER FLOATING REGIME IN BANGLADESH: AN ASSESSMENT AND STRATEGIC POLICY OPTIONS
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Submission Tuesday 10th April 2012 Answer all questions. Q.1 (a)Explain the operation and activities of the stock exchange market in an emerging market/country of your own choice (for example Chinese market). (20 marks) (b) With close reference to the relevant theoretical and empirical literature and relevant financial data critically evaluate the efficiency of your chosen stock exchange market. (20 marks) Q.2 (a) Explain the key functions and operations of the Eurodollar Market. (10 marks) (b)
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Assignment on History of Exchange Rate Prepared for Ms. Rafia Afrin Course Title: International Finance Course Code: F603 Prepared By H. M. Shahriar Hassan Roll: 05 MBA 45E Institute of Business Administration University of Dhaka March 19‚ 2013 History of Exchange Rate Exchange Rate: In finance‚ an exchange rate between two currencies is the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another. It is also regarded as the value of one country’s currency in terms of another
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Floating Exchange Rate Exchange rates between currencies have been highly unstable since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates‚ which lasted from 1946 to 1973. Under the "floating" exchange rates‚ since 1973‚ exchange rates are determined by people buying and selling currencies in the foreign-exchange markets . The instability of floating rates has surprised and disappointed many economists and businessmen‚ who had not expected them to create so much uncertainty.
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account position for the same period and you can see why there is concern over the issue. US politicians point to the rapidly accumulating foreign reserves held by China‚ now amounting to over $850 million‚ as evidence of currency manipulation. (The Times‚ 28Mar06). They make the case that maintaining the artificially low position of the RMB through foreign reserve accumulation deteriorates the US current account balance with China because it reduces the competitiveness of US industries with respect
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Exchange rate development in Ethiopia Monetary Development The legal tender currency of Ethiopia was issued on 23 July 1945 by defining the monetary unit as the Ethiopia dollar (E$) with a value of 5.52 grains (equivalent to 0.355745 grams) of fine gold. The linkage with fine gold was in accord with the monetary system established by the Bretton Woods Agreement of 1944. For the five years following the proclamation of the national currency (1945–1950)‚ money supply of the country was determined
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