Corporate debt issues and interest rate risk management: Hedging or market timing?

Journal of Financial Markets

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 500-520

  Antoniou, Antonios ^a   Zhao, Huainan ^b,c   Zhou, Bilei ^d  

^a FRT C Consulting   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^d HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Debt issuance; Hedging; Market timing; Risk management

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649379107     PISSN: 13864181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.finmar.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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