CHAPTER 7
Forward FX Contracts
Forward foreign exchange (FX) contracts are used by many companies to help manage the risk posed by uncertain future FX rate fluctuations. This chapter covers some basics of forward FX contracts and forward FX rates. We'll encounter another version of interest rate parity, called the covered interest rate parity (CIRP) condition. As you will see, the CIRP condition looks deceptively similar to the traditional UIRP condition, so much so that some people confuse them, but the two relationships are conceptually very different. The UIRP condition we covered already is based on economic theory, while we will see that the CIRP condition is a different kind of relationship, called a financial no-arbitrage condition.
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