Who hedges more when leverage is endogenous? A testable theory of corporate risk management under general distributional conditions

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 353-391

  Hahnenstein, Lutz ^a   Röder, Klaus ^b  

^a IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bankruptcy; Capital structure; Corporate hedging; Financial distress; Leverage; Risk management

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548599500     PISSN: 0924865X     EISSN: 15737179     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11156-007-0017-z     Document Type: Article

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