Do You Need Inflation-linked Debt?
Foreword
Introduction
Theory and Practice of Corporate Risk Management
Theory and Practice of Optimal Capital Structure
Introduction to Funding and Capital Structure
How to Obtain a Credit Rating
Refinancing Risk and Optimal Debt Maturity
Optimal Cash Position
Optimal Leverage
Introduction to Interest Rate and Inflation Risks
How to Develop an Interest Rate Risk Management Policy
How to Improve Your Fixed-Floating Mix and Duration
Interest Rates: The Most Efficient Hedging Product
Do You Need Inflation-linked Debt?
Prehedging Interest Rate Risk
Pension Fund Asset and Liability Management
Introduction to Currency Risk
How to Develop Currency Risk Management Policy
Translation or Transaction: Netting Currency Risks
Early Warning Signals
How to Hedge High Carry Currencies
Currency Risk on Covenants
Optimal Currency Composition of Debt 1: Protect Book Value
Optimal Currency Composition of Debt 2: Protect Leverage
Cyclicality of Currencies and Use of Options to Manage Credit Utilisation
Managing the Depegging Risk
Currency Risk in Luxury Goods
Introduction to Credit Risk
Counterparty Risk Methodology
Counterparty Risk Protection
Optimal Deposit Composition
Prehedging Credit Risk
xVA Optimisation
Introduction to M&A-related Risks
Risk Management for M&A
Deal-contingent Hedging
Introduction to Commodity Risk
Managing Commodity-linked Revenues and Currency Risk
Managing Commodity-linked Costs and Currency Risk
Commodity Input and Resulting Currency Risk
Offsetting Carbon Emissions
Introduction to Equity Risk
Hedging Dilution Risk
Hedging Deferred Compensation
Stake-building
Most companies are exposed to inflation in one way or another. At least part of the costs for many companies is positively linked to inflation. Some companies also have revenues that are explicitly inflation-indexed; these companies are normally in regulated industries, such as utilities or toll-road operators. On the sovereign side, many governments11 For example UK, France, Italy, Germany and US. have issued debt linked to inflation and, if this debt can be liquidly traded, an inflation market is created so that financial counterparties can offer inflation derivatives to companies and investors. This is made possible by hedging the inflation risk through buying and selling sovereign inflation-linked debt.
In those countries with liquid inflation markets, companies can hedge inflation risk like any other financial risk through inflation-linked derivatives (see Benaben, 2005; Goldenberg, 2008). Another way to manage the inflation risk is to buy or issue inflation-linked bonds. For instance, a company that has inflation-linked revenues is exposed to scenarios of lower inflation. To offset or reduce that risk, they can decide to issue an inflation-linked bond. If revenues are low
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