Operational and financial hedging: Evidence from export and import behavior

Olga Kuzmina and Olga Kuznetsova

Journal of Corporate Finance, 2018, vol. 48, issue C, 109-121

Abstract: We use hand-collected data on a sample of German public firms during 2011-2014 to show that firms use currency derivatives more often when they export or import, and especially when exchange-rate fluctuations are larger, but to a lesser extent when having high export and import shares simultaneously. We interpret this finding as evidence of operational hedging that arises when foreign-denominated revenues and costs match, crowding out financial hedging. Our identification strategy uses both cross-sectional heterogeneity in exchange-rate exposures and time-series variation in exchange-rate fluctuations. The results highlight the importance of examining operating strategies as integral determinants of corporate financing policies.

Keywords: Hedging; Exporting; Operational hedging; Exchange-rate exposure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 F36 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2017.10.009

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