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Borrowing Combined with Forward Hedging Cedar Falls Co. has a subsidiary in Brazil, wher...

Borrowing Combined with Forward Hedging Cedar Falls Co. has a subsidiary in Brazil, where local interest rates are high. It considers borrowing dollars and hedging the exchange rate risk by selling the Brazilian real forward in exchange for dollars for the periods in which it would need to make loan payments in dollars. Assume that forward contracts on the real are available. What is the limitation of this strategy?

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Solutions For Problems in Chapter 18