Tufano, Peter (1998) The Determinants of Stock Price Exposure: Financial Engineering and the Gold Mining Industry. The Journal of Finance, 53 (3). pp. 1015-1052.
Abstract
This paper studies the exposure of North American gold mining firms to changes in the price of gold. The average mining stock moves 2 percent for each 1 percent change in gold prices, but exposures vary considerably over time and across firms. As predicted by valuation models, gold firm exposures are significantly negatively related to the firm's hedging and diversification activities and to gold prices and gold return volatility, and are positively related to firm leverage. Simple discounted cash flow models produce useful exposure predictions but they systematically overestimate exposures, possibly due to their failure to reflect managerial flexibility.
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | hedging; mining; volatility; stocks |
Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2011 14:50 |
Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2015 13:04 |
URI: | http://eureka.sbs.ox.ac.uk/id/eprint/922 |
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