Foreign debt and financial hedging: Evidence from Australia

International Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 184-201

  Nguyen, Hoa ^a   Faff, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Financial hedging; Foreign currency exposure; Foreign debt

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646186802     PISSN: 10590560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iref.2004.03.006     Document Type: Article

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