Methods of Hedging against the fluctuating in currency exchange rate and the factors affected it | ||
| Economic Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 8, Issue 30, June 2013, Pages 153-182 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Alaa A. Al Saedi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study focused on the ways and methods of hedging against the fluctuations in currency exchange rates and the factors affecting it. The paper measured the importance of each of these methods to find if there is any affect on the company's characteristics (type of sectors, capital, number of employees, nationality) specifically the methods' importance by using questionnaire methods which was distributed to 201 companies in different sectors in the United Arab Emirates. The study conclude that all of the companies follow the hedging methods against the fluctuations in currency exchange rates by 53.06%, and the large companies are following these methods more than the smaller companies. | ||
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