The importance of corporate foreign debt in managing exchange rate exposures in non-financial companies

European Financial Management

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 633-649

  Aabo, Tom ^a  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Exchange rate exposure management; Financial hedging; Foreign debt

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247853409     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2006.00334.x     Document Type: Article

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