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  • 1993
  • Working Paper

Currency Hedging Over Long Horizons

By: K. A. Froot
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  • | Language:English
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Abstract

This paper reexamines the widely-held wisdom that the currency exposure of international investments should be entirely hedged. It finds that the previously documented ability of hedges to reduce portfolio return variance holds at short horizons, but not at long horizons. At horizons of several years, complete hedging not only does not lower return variance, it actually increases the return variance of many portfolios. Hedge ratios chosen to minimize long-run return variance are not only low, they also have no perceptible impact on return variance. The paper reports and explores these results, their apparent causes, and investigates their implications for hedging practice.

Keywords

Currency; Hedging; Transaction Costs; Exchange Rates; International Markets; Real Exchange Rate; Purchasing Power Parity; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Asset Pricing; Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries

Citation

Froot, K. A. "Currency Hedging Over Long Horizons." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 4355, May 1993. (Featured in the NBER Digest, October 1993. Harvard University, April 1993.)

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Kenneth A. Froot

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