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4.6: With globalization of revenues… globalization of risk
Proposition 1:
There is more risk in operating in some countries than in others and
the risk premium should reflect this additional risk. One approach to
estimating this additional risk premium is to do the following:
•
Start with the default spread for the country in question
•
Scale up the default spread to reflect the additional risk of equity
Country Risk Premium = Default Spread * (
σ
Equity/
σ
Government Bond
)
Country Risk Premium
Brazil
= 2.00% (33%/22%) = 3.00%
Proposition 2:
Risk comes from your operations and not your country of
incorporation. Developed market companies can be heavily exposed to
emerging market risk, just as emerging market companies can find ways to
reduce their exposure to emerging market risk. One simple proxy is to look at
the revenues generated in a country, relative to the average company in that
market.
•
Proportion of Chippewa
s revenues from Brazil = 20%
•
Average Brazilian company
s revenues from Brazil = 77%
Lambda
Chippewa
= 20%/ 77% = .26

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Country Risk Premiums
January 2011
Angola
11.00%
Botswana
6.50%
Egypt
8.60%
Mauritius
7.63%
Morocco
8.60%
South Africa
6.73%
Tunisia
7.63%
Austria [1]
5.00%
Belgium [1]
5.38%
Cyprus [1]
6.05%
Denmark
5.00%
Finland [1]
5.00%
France [1]
5.00%
Germany [1]
5.00%
Greece [1]
8.60%
Iceland
8.00%
Ireland [1]
7.25%
Italy [1]
5.75%
Malta [1]
6.28%
Netherlands [1]
5.00%
Norway
5.00%
Portugal [1]
6.28%
Spain [1]
5.38%
Sweden
5.00%
Switzerland
5.00%
United
Kingdom
5.00%
Canada
5.00%
United States
5.00%
Argentina
14.00%
Belize
14.00%
Bolivia
11.00%
Brazil
8.00%
Chile
6.05%
Colombia
8.00%
Costa Rica
8.00%
Ecuador
20.00%
El Salvador
20.00%
Guatemala
8.60%
Honduras
12.50%
Mexico
7.25%
Nicaragua
14.00%
Panama
8.00%
Paraguay
11.00%
Peru
8.00%
Bahrain
6.73%
Israel
6.28%
Jordan
8.00%
Kuwait
5.75%
Lebanon
11.00%
Oman
6.28%
Qatar
5.75%
Saudi Arabia
6.05%
United Arab Emirates
5.75%
Australia
5.00%
New Zealand
5.00%
Bangladesh
9.88%
Cambodia
12.50%
China
6.05%
Fiji Islands
11.00%
Hong Kong
5.38%
India
8.60%
Indonesia
9.13%
Japan
5.75%
Korea
6.28%
Macao
6.05%
Mongolia
11.00%
Pakistan
14.00%
Papua New
Guinea
11.00%
Philippines
9.88%
Singapore
5.00%
Sri Lanka
11.00%
Taiwan
6.05%
Thailand
7.25%
Turkey
9.13%
Albania
11.00%
Armenia
9.13%
Azerbaijan
8.60%
Belarus
11.00%
Bosnia and
Herzegovina
12.50%
Bulgaria
8.00%
Croatia
8.00%
Czech
Republic
6.28%
Estonia
6.28%
Hungary
8.00%
Kazakhstan
7.63%
Latvia
8.00%
Lithuania
7.25%
Moldova
14.00%
Montenegro
9.88%
Poland
6.50%
Romania
8.00%
Russia
7.25%
Slovakia
6.28%
Slovenia [1]
5.75%
Ukraine
12.50%

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Estimating lambdas: Tata Group
Tata Chemicals
Tata Steel
Tata Motors
TCS
% of production/
operations in India
High
High
High
Low
% of revenues in
India
75%
88.83%
91.37%
7.62%
Lambda
0.75
1.10
0.80
0.20
Other factors
Gets 77% of its
raw material
from non-
domestic
sources,
Recently
acquired
Jaguar/Land
Rover, with
significant non-
domestic sales
While its
operations are
spread all over, it
uses primarily
Indian personnel

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