Table 1 below summarizes other significant empirical results regarding the using of foreign-currency derivatives by firms exposed to exchange-rate risks.
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The main idea here is to complement these studies by focusing on a single company with specific needs in hedging exchange-rate risk. Two particularly important outcomes from Table 1 include: Bartram (2008), who suggests “that managers of nonfinancial firms with operations exposed to foreign exchange rate risk take savvy actions to reduce exposure to a level too low to allow its detection empirically” (p.1508); and Adam and Fernando (2006), who argue that cash flow gains from derivatives trading increase shareholder value. We try to show what happens when managers are not as savvy as in Bartram (2008) and that cash flow gains from derivative trading may give incentives for excessive financial exposure to derivatives.