Corporate dollar debt and depreciations: Much ado about nothing?

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 612-626

  Bleakley, Hoyt ^b   Cowan, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CENTRAL BANK OF CHILE   (Chile)

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EID: 55549118596     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/rest.90.4.612     Document Type: Article

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