Managing Global Financial and Foreign Exchange Rate Risk: (159 Wiley Finance)

Table of Contents:
Preface xv Chapter 1 Global Markets: Transactions and Risks 1 Savings and Loans Problems 2 Agency Problems 3 Types of Markets 5 Types of Transactions 7 Types of Risks 10 Chapter 2 Balance of Payments Exposure Management 15 Balance of Payments as a Source and Use of Funds 17 Components of Balance of Payments 17 Current Account and Economic Fundamentals 19 Capital Account, Expectation, and Interest Rate 21 U.S. Balance of Payments: Recent Evidence 21 Exposure Related to Capital Account 23 Exchange Rate Arrangements, Dollarization, and Peg 28 Managing Balance of Payment Exposure in the Emerging Market Economies 32 Case Study: Kairos Capital 33 Chapter 3 Foreign Exchange Rate Dynamics: Managing Exposure 39 Foreign Exchange Markets 39 Foreign Exchange Transactions 39 Foreign Exchange Market Functions 45 Foreign Exchange Quotations 45 Cross-Exchange Rate 46 Bid and Offer Quotations in the Interbank Market 47 Arbitrage in the Foreign Exchange Market 47 Major Players in the Foreign Exchange Market 47 Speculative Transactions 50 Foreign Exchange Loss 50 Settlement Risk 51 Spot Rate and the Law of One Price 51 Big Mac Index 52 Central Bank Intervention 54 Relative Version of Purchasing Power Parity 56 Exchange Rate Pass-Through 59 Spot Exchange Rate and Nominal Interest Rate 61 Forward Exchange Rate and Covered Interest Parity 62 Forward Premium or Discount for Selected Currencies 65 International Parity Relationship 66 Real Exchange Rate 66 Real Exchange Rate and East Asian Currency Crisis 68 Case Study: Real-World Furniture, Inc. 69 Chapter 4 Application of Options and Futures for Managing Exposure 75 Determinants of the Option Price (Premium) 75 Options Traded in Organized Exchanges 77 Sensitivity of Put and Call Price to Underlying Factors 79 Functions of Options and Futures 82 Hedging Receivables Denominated in Foreign Currency 86 Speculation on the Futures Premium or Discount 91 Hedge Ratio 93 Price Discovery of Options and Futures 95 Regulatory Arbitrage 96 Binomial Option Pricing 96 Hedged Portfolio 99 Derivatives Application in Practice 100 Synthetic Forward Contract 101 Case Study: Applications of Futures Contracts in Portfolio Hedging 102 Chapter 5 Principles of Futures: Pricing and Applications 107 Cost of Carry 107 Stock Index Futures 108 Index Arbitrage 109 Portfolio Insurance 113 Hedging with Stock Index Futures Options 115 Basis Risk 119 Changing the Beta of the Portfolio with Futures 120 Anticipatory Hedge with Stock Index Futures 122 Case Study: Competition for Safeway, PLC 123 Managing Exposure of an Individual Stock 124 Currency Futures 124 Hedging with Currency Futures 126 Anticipatory Hedging of Weakening Currency 128 Rolling Over the Futures Hedge 129 Marking to Market and Margin 131 Commodity Futures 132 Spread Position 133 Hedging with Commodities Futures 134 Empirical Evidence: Forward and Future Prices 138 Case Study: Chockletto International Hedging 140 Chapter 6 Interest Rate Futures: Pricing and Applications 143 Treasury Bills Futures 144 Spot Rate 144 Forward Rate 146 Determinants of the Shape of the Term Structure of Interest Rates 148 Approximate Duration 154 Pricing Treasury Bill Futures 155 Eurodollar Futures 156 Treasury Notes Futures 158 Treasury Bond Futures 160 Conversion Factor 162 Arbitrage in the Interest Rates Futures Market 165 Pricing Synthetic Futures or Forward 165 Hedging with Futures: Duration-Based Approach 168 Chapter 7 Swaps 177 Interest Rate Swaps 178 Forward Rate Agreement 178 Interest Rate Conventions 181 Stripes of Forward Rate Agreements 181 Motivations for Swaps 183 Swaps Due to Comparative Advantage 185 Swap Valuation 188 Interest Rate Caps, Floors, Collars, and Corridors 190 Volatility of Interest Rates 198 Swaptions 200 Callable Swap 201 Putable Swap 202 Warehousing Swap 203 Swaps Risks 203 Exotic Swaps 206 Currency Swaps 207 Break-Even Analysis of Swap and Refinancing 211 Options Embedded in Currency Swaps 212 Three-Way Swaps 213 Chapter 8 Translation, Transaction, and Operating Exposure 217 Translation Exposure 217 Case Study: Accounting Exposure 220 Functional Currency 222 Managing Translation Exposure 223 Balance Sheet Hedging 223 Transaction Exposure 224 Operating Exposure 224 Hedging in Practice: Nike and DuPont 225 Exposure Netting 226 Forward Hedging: Example 226 Money Market Hedge 228 Hedging with Futures 231 Option Hedging 233 Value at Risk 235 Two Assets Portfolio 237 Lufthansa Buys Aircraft from Boeing 238 Managing Operating Exposure 243 Fixed for Fixed Currency and Interest Rate Swaps 249 Chapter 9 Debt, Equity, and Other Synthetic Structures 253 Inverse Floater 253 Creating a Synthetic Fixed Rate 256 Synthetic Structures 258 Mortgage- and Asset-backed Derivatives 259 Prepayment Risks 259 Sequential-Pay Collateralized Mortgage Obligations 261 Interest Only and Principal Only 261 Equity-Linked Debt 263 Zero Coupon Bond Linked to Goldman Sachs Commodity Index 264 Global Diversification with Swaps 265 Catastrophe Bonds 266 Liability Management with Derivatives 266 Spread on Treasury Yield Curve 275 Chapter 10 Options on Futures 279 Spreads 281 Bull Spreads 281 Bear Spreads 283 Butterfly Spreads 284 Box Spreads 285 Long Straddle 288 Short Straddle 289 Calendar Spread 290 Strips 292 Straps 294 Price and Yield Volatility 296 Spread Trades on Treasury Curves 297 Exotic Options 301 Chapter 11 Credit Derivatives: Pricing and Applications 307 Credit Derivatives Products 308 Credit Event/Default Swap 309 Pricing Credit Default Swap 312 Unwinding and Assignability of Credit Default Swaps 315 Default Probability 318 Break-Even High-Yield Bonds 320 Default Risk/Return 321 Creating Synthetic Assets 321 Synthetic Credit Default Swaps 323 Credit Default Swap Applications 323 Restructuring 324 Credit-Linked Notes 326 Synthetic Collateralized Loan Obligations 327 Objectives of Structuring Collateralized Loan Obligations 329 Synthetic Collateralized Loan Obligations 329 Synthetic Arbitrage Collateralized Loan Obligations 331 Synthetic Balance Sheet Collateralized Loan Obligations 332 Capital Adequacy Requirements 333 Credit Exposure Method 334 Total Return Swaps 335 Chapter 12 Credit and Other Exotic Derivatives 341 Credit Spread Forward 342 Credit Spread Option 342 Asset Swap Switch 344 Callable Step-ups 347 Transfer and Convertibility Protection 348 Pricing Transfer and Convertibility Protection 353 Speculative Capital 354 Emerging Market Debts and Brady Bonds 354 International Swaps and Derivatives Association Master Agreement 356 Weather Derivatives 357 Weather Derivatives Market 358 Exchange-Traded Weather Derivatives 359 CME Futures 360 CME Options 362 Swaps 363 References 365 Index 373

About the Author :
GHASSEM A. HOMAIFAR is a professor of financial economics at Middle Tennessee State University. He has a master of science in industrial management from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a PhD in finance from the University of Alabama. He is the author of numerous articles that have appeared in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv Review of World Economics, Applied Financial Economics, Applied Economics, International Economics, and Global Finance Journal.