Arbeitspapier
Risk management and derivatives losses
Even though financial risk management has the ability to generate value, the use of financial derivatives among nonfinancial corporations remains limited. We identify a channel that contributes to this limited use: the decoupling of derivatives losses and operational gains. Specifically, firms ex post consider their operational profits separately from their derivatives profits. We explore this phenomenon among firms in Mexico. We use the universe of US dollar-Mexican peso currency derivatives transactions in Mexico along with customs data to construct a unique data set on operational exchange rate exposure and financial hedging. We find that contrary to a rational and frictionless benchmark, performance in previous derivatives transactions predicts future derivatives use. Using a regression kink design to measure the impact of decoupling on risk management, we find that when losses from previous transactions increase 1 percentage point, firms become 4.24 percentage points less likely to take out a new derivatives position within 90 days. We provide further evidence that is consistent with decoupling and supports rejecting a net worth channel.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Papers ; No. 23-8
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
Foreign Exchange
- Thema
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risk management
exchange rates
financial hedging
narrow framing
loss aversion
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Levin-Konigsberg, Gabriel
Stein, Hillary
García Averell, Vicente
López Castañon, Calixto
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
- (wo)
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Boston, MA
- (wann)
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2023
- DOI
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doi:10.29412/res.wp.2023.08
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Levin-Konigsberg, Gabriel
- Stein, Hillary
- García Averell, Vicente
- López Castañon, Calixto
- Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Entstanden
- 2023
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