Foreign currency borrowing by small firms in emerging markets: When domestic banks intermediate dollars

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1093-1107

  Mora, Nada ^a   Neaime, Simon ^b   Aintablian, Sebouh ^c  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Currency mismatch; Dollar debt; Dollarization; Foreign currency borrowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872265097     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2012.11.012     Document Type: Article

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