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Hedging Currency Risks? An Evaluation of SMEs in Northern Germany

European Journal of Business Science and Technology

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Title Hedging Currency Risks? An Evaluation of SMEs in Northern Germany
 
Creator Neumann, Jan Christoph
 
Description One of the important issues for companies is liquidity from domestic and foreign trade. The market is classically defined by the number of available markets. Globalization and free trade zones set up the foreign market, which becomes increasingly important – even for SMEs. This paper analyzed approx. 60,000 bank transactions with foreign reference north German SMEs by using Chi-square test and correlation analysis. The analysis proofs that an increasing number of foreign transfers, increases the number of foreign currency accounts per company. The results also show that despite the existence of currency hedging tools, a significant proportion continues to expose themselves to currency risk. The willingness to manage currency risks increases with the increase in value per transaction. Transactions with a value >10,000 EUR are often transferred abroad in EUR instead of in foreign currency.
 
Publisher Mendel University in Brno
 
Date 2019-12-23
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journal.ejobsat.cz/index.php/ejobsat/article/view/177
10.11118/ejobsat.v5i2.177
 
Source European Journal of Business Science and Technology; Vol 5 No 2 (2019); pp. 129–142
2694-7161
2336-6494
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journal.ejobsat.cz/index.php/ejobsat/article/view/177/175
 
Rights Copyright (c) 2019 Jan Christoph Neumann
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