A study on unification financing: By utilization of the Cross Currency Swap techniques
Unification needs to be treated with business management approach. The most important aspect of it is to raise required funds at a right time in advance without ...
A study on unification financing: By utilization of the Cross Currency Swap techniques
Unification needs to be treated with business management approach. The most important aspect of it is to raise required funds at a right time in advance without a problem or risk. However, existing studies tend to simply list the general and superficial aspects of unification financing rather than providing more specific and practical financing method. In this study, we review advantages and disadvantages of financing methods suggested by prior studies including Germany’s unification financing decision, government bond issuance, tax boost, foreign borrowing, etc. In addition, the present value (PV) reflecting the purchasing power of money is calculated herein to find out how competitive each method is. By doing so, this study set up research hypotheses on more practical unification financing method based on overseas borrowings as contended herein as a confident solution as well as hedging against its accompanied exchange rate risk and interest risk. Then as looking at the outlook of international financial market which is characterized as Global Dollar Chains (GDC), this study explains specific borrowing amount and terms for unification financing, global loaners, reasons of borrowing, borrowing methods, etc. Due to the abundant liquidity caused by quantitative easing and long-term low interest, I argue that this is a good timing for overseas borrowing for unification financing via positive financial diplomacy, roadshow, etc. In overseas borrowing, exchange rate and interest rate pose a risk. Thus, in hedging against these, the hedge effectiveness test, Dollar-offset method, is employed to test and verify. Based on this series of analyses, the hypotheses have been proven valid herein. Moreover this study presents the increased burden numerically according to the scenario where exchange rate and interest risks are not hedged against. Lastly, this study provides its findings and explains its significance along with in-depth analysis outcomes. Subsequent study will need to deal with other types of swap than the currency swap, option, futures techniques, justifiability of financing, unification timing, early development of diplomacy for unification financing, organization establishment and North-South Korea currency unification. To my best knowledge, this study is the first-ever academic research on unification financing based on the specific and practical technique of currency swap to hedge against exchange rate and interest fluctuation risks in the international financial market.