Compare and contrast foreign currency futures and options. Identify situations where you may choose one or the other. When Barings Bank‚ the oldest merchant bank in London‚ collapsed in 1995 after one of the bank’s employees lost £827 million due to speculative investing‚ primarily in futures contracts‚ it illustrated the extreme danger and volatility of derivatives. Options and futures can be used to eliminate‚ reduce‚ hedge and manage risk‚ but can also be highly speculative. Foreign currency
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76 CHAPTER 7 CURRENCY FUTURES AND OPTIONS MARKETS This chapter describes foreign currency futures and options contracts and shows how they can be used to manage foreign exchange risk or take speculative positions on currency movements. It also shows how to read the prices of these contracts as they appear in the financial press. SUGGESTED ANSWERS TO CHAPTER 7 QUESTIONS 1. On April 1‚ the spot price of the British pound was $1.86 and the price of the June futures contract was $1.85. During
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Executive Stock Options and IPO Underpricing Michelle Lowry• Smeal College of Business Penn State University E-mail: mlowry@psu.edu Phone: (814) 865-1483 Kevin J. Murphy Marshall School of Business University of Southern California E-mail: kjmurphy@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-6553 July 31‚ 2006 Abstract In about one-third of US IPOs between 1996 and 2000‚ executives received stock options with an exercise price set equal to the IPO offer price (rather than a price determined by the market)
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REAL OPTIONS: STATE OF THE PRACTICE by Alex Triantis‚ University of Maryland‚ and Adam Borison‚ Applied Decision Analysis/ PricewaterhouseCoopers1 n an economic environment characterized by rapid change‚ great uncertainty‚ and the need for flexibility‚ it has become increasingly important for corporate managers to use investment evaluation tools and processes that properly account for both uncertainty and the company’s ability to react to new information. Real options has emerged as an approach
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Advanced Corporate Finance and Modeling – FINA0065-1 Assignment #1 – Laura Martin: Real Options and the Cable Industry 1. Consider the multiples analysis developed in Exhibits 2‚5 & 6 Please describe the method of ‘Multiples’ using case numbers and answer to the following questions: 1.1. What assumptions does this analysis rely upon? 1.2. How is Martin’s regression analysis different from/similar to traditional multiples analysis? 1.3. Do you agree with her interpretation of the regression
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Sally Jameson: Valuing Stock Options in a Compensation Package By Group 10 1. If we ignore tax consideration and assume that Sally Jameson is free to sell her options at any time after she joins Telstar‚ which compensation package is worth more? First scenario‚ if Sally chooses stock options and hold until maturity date. Ignoring the taxation and other constraints‚ the future value of cash compensation at the end of the 5th year will be 5000 * (1 + 0.0602) ^ 5 = 6697.44. We can easily form the
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14 OPTIONS AND CORPORATE FINANCE Answers to Concepts Review and Critical Thinking Questions 1. A call option confers the right‚ without the obligation‚ to buy an asset at a given price on or before a given date. A put option confers the right‚ without the obligation‚ to sell an asset at a given price on or before a given date. You would buy a call option if you expect the price of the asset to increase. You would buy a put option if you expect the price of the asset to decrease. A call option
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Applications of option pricing in corporate finance Option pricing is used in four major areas of corporate finance: • Real Options Suppose a company has a 1-year proprietary license to develop a software application for use in a new generation of wireless cellular telephones. Hiring programmers and marketing consultants to complete the project will cost $30 million. The good news is that if consumers love the new cell phones‚ there will be a tremendous demand for the software. The bad news
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Introduction: Real option analysis (ROA) is a decision-making structure that basically calculates the value of a future business decision. ROA borrows from financial options theory. A financial option gives the buyer of a financial asset the right‚ but not the obligation‚ to buy a stock or bond‚ for example‚ at a predetermined price at a future date. By analogy‚ a real option is a managerial decision-making tool that calculates the value of a business decision that a manager has an option‚ or right‚ but
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