“…In addition, we investigate the determinants of derivative usage by emerging country banks. Numerous studies have examined the relationships between financial derivatives and bank risk, stability, and value for developed market banks (Li and Marinč, 2014;Mayordomo, Rodriguez-Moreno and Peña, 2014;Bliss, Clark and DeLisle, 2017;Chang, Ho and Hsiao, 2017), but few studies have been dedicated to analyzing these relationships in emerging market banks Chan, 2011, 2013;Keffala, 2015;Titova, Penikas and Gomayun, 2018). To further our understanding of emerging market bank derivative usage, we analyze a unique dataset by hand collecting derivative data from the financial statements of listed banks and classifying derivatives according to their main purpose, namely, hedging or speculation.…”