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means that even in years where many airlines faced losses and even bankruptcy, Southwest Airlines remained profitable, with hedgin...

reviewing some of the important issues in the literature which have guiding the way that the data was collected and analyzed. Foll...

be used for a number of reasons, Corman (1996) notes that there are potential benefits to managing Cash flow for some hedging prac...

(Howells and Bain, 2007). Forwards Forwards are the oldest and perhaps the simplest type of derivative. The contract consists of ...

The writer proposes a research method to collect data from airlines to determine if airlines that hedge are more profitable compa...

questions to be addressed with the research is to assess whether or not it is in the interests of the shareholders, assuming they ...

approach to research. The suitability of any research design may be assessed in terms of the viability, robustness and validity of...

price at a set point in time. This takes out the risk as the firm then knows what they are going to pay for the good they need. If...

theory with grand theoretical systems, when talking of psychology cites psychoanalysis and behavorism as grand theories. Here ther...

of market conditions at the times airlines do not need to utilize fuel. Brooks and Carter et al. (2006) observed that hedging pra...

that the organization can ensure that they continue to purchase fuel at the current rate, even if the actual market value of the c...

paragraph helps the student provide an overview of the issue of fuel hedging. Hedging, as a generality, is a common investment tac...

were gathered and analyzed statistically using Tobins Q ratio approach. The research did not only look at the difference between t...

airline operating costs. Increasing costs can have a significant impact on the profitability of a firm; this has been particula...

the hedging category for the years in which undertook hedging. The results may be correlated to see if there is a snippet differen...

are able to manage the supply chain to obtain lower prices on the goods that they sell. A master of this has been Nike with the ou...

costs involved (Bartram, 2008). The use of forwards may not be limited to the sale of the contracts where a firm has a high leve...

they can enjoy a growth period and their presence may also help stimulate general investment fund purchases. There has been...

In eleven pages this paper discusses how hedging to enhance profits or reduce dealing risks may be used by international companies...

The writer looks at the way a firm can protect itself from exposure to risk by using hedging tools. The use of currency purchases...

Clark E; Lukas E, (2008, Nov), Hedging mean-reverting commodities, retrieved http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=12...

to the airlines: they have to buy the fuel at the agreed upon rate regardless of what happens to the actual market value of fuel. ...

simply stopped hedging, as seen with US Air, others changed the way in which they undertook hedging, shifting from hedging for fu...

numerical, it is suitable to be used as a method of determining cause and effect relationships (Curwin and Slater, 2007). The meth...

Mintzberg et al, 1998). Successful and effective risk management may even be the source of a competitive advantage (Rose, 2001, P...

a further 20% this will have a financial impact on US firms, the impact will depend on the type of transactions undertaken by the ...

The theory of constraints is examined as a suitable theory to be used in an assessment of the value of airline fuel hedging and t...

This 3 page paper designs a questionnaire which may be used as the basis for a structured interview or self competing survey looki...

The writer looks at potential research designs to assess which would be most appropriate for research into financial performance o...

one of these concepts represents a total image of the truth of theory. Rather, a synthetic view of theory developed from exploring...