Role of Currency Futures in Risk Management (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783640889532)

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 81%, University of Westminster (Westminster Business School), language: English, abstract: This paper examines the role of currency futures contracts in risk management. The reader can find a brief introduction to the history of foreign exchange markets and under which cir-cumstances the markets appeared in 1970s. Furthermore, the question of why to use currency futures to hedge risk exposures is answered. A more in-depth analysis of how currency futures contracts are structured, especially their specifications and their advantages and limi-tations for the user. Moreover this paper addresses issue of how currency futures are used by participants. Finally, a brief use of currency futures is also examined with a case study on the FX-market.

Author: Panagiotis Papadopoulos
ISBN-10: 3640889533
ISBN-13: 9783640889532
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Language: English
Published: 04/12/2011
Pages: 28
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.11lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.07d