Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202922 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers No. 18-6
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Boston, MA
Abstract: 
We use transaction-level data on foreign exchange (FX) forward contracts for the period 2014 through 2016 in conjunction with supervisory balance sheet information to study the drivers of banks' dollar hedging costs. Comparing contracts of the same maturity that are initiated during the same hour of the same day, we find large heterogeneity in banks' hedging costs. We show that these costs (i) are higher for banks with a larger FX funding gap, (ii) depend on banks' FX funding composition in terms of the source (interbank versus retail) and rollover structure (long-term versus short-term), (iii) are lower for banks with deeper internal dollar capital markets, and (iv) increase with banks' shadow cost of capital. Our results are important for understanding how shocks are transmitted internationally through the FX hedging market.
Subjects: 
FX markets
foreign exchange
dollar hedging
price determination
global banks
international financial shocks
JEL: 
D40
E43
F30
F31
G15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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