Foreign Debt Usage in Non-Financial Firms: A Horse Race between Operating and Accounting Exposure Hedging

European Financial Management

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 590-611

  Aabo, Tom ^a   Hansen, Marianna Andryeyeva ^b   Muradoglu, Yaz Gulnur ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b NOVOZYMES A S   (Denmark)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accounting exposure; Exchange rate exposure management; Foreign assets; Foreign debt; Foreign subsidiaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930048247     PISSN: 13547798     EISSN: 1468036X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-036X.2013.12032.x     Document Type: Article

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