In the face of intensifying strategic competition between the United States and China, most Southeast Asian states continue to prefer hedging strategies in an effort to maintain autonomy and flexibility. This involves deepening ties with both superpowers rather than siding with one or the other....
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Single, multiple, and joint currency and commodity futures cross-hedges are examined for the five Southeast Asian currencies. The performance of the cross-hedged portfolios is estimated within the mean-variance framework. Out-of-sample cross-hedging strategies are emphasized, although in-sample hedging...
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However, there tends to be less policy and scholarly attention paid to how hedging strategies actually fare in securing the interests of regional states during power transition. This is of particular concern given the increasing tensions that seem to be afflicting the Asia-Pacific in spite of ...