Hedgng with Foreign Currency Options外汇期权套期保值

1、international finance gsm 658eli waite“a foreign currency option contract is a financial instrument that gives the holder the right but not the obligation to sell or buy currencies at a set price either on a specific date or before some expiration date.”(the theory and practice of international fina

2、ncial management, click and coval, 2002)hedging potential transactions transactions that depend on something else uncertain demand“quantity risk”limit downside risk, but reap most of the upside.call options the right to buy a currency at the strike price used to hedge foreign currency outflowsput op

3、tions the right to sell a currency at the strike price used to hedge foreign currency inflowscontract size = 10,000 foreign currency units (1,000,000 yen) (source: http:/ the third friday of the expiration month. (source: http:/ options can be exercised anytime before maturity.european options can o

4、nly be exercised at maturity.source: (/wikipedia/en/d/d1/putoption.png)source: (/wikipedia/en/7/7f/calloption.png)strike price?maturity?american or european?philadelphia exchange http:/ co, a cheese and wine store in salem, or has placed a 20,000 b

5、id for a very rare wine from france on march 18. the results of the auction will not be known until may. the management team at pace co is worried that the euro will continue its recent appreciation and would like to lock in an exchange rate so that the cost of the auction does not get out of hand w

6、ithout having to commit to a contract. what should they do?pace industrials based in salem, or has placed a bid with the australian government to be one of the sub-contractors to build a bridge to tasmania for au$2,000,000. the winning bid will be selected in june (they will be paid at that time). the management team is concerned that the australian dollar may depre