Artigo Acesso aberto Revisado por pares

Foreign Currency–Denominated Debt: An Empirical Examination*

2003; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 76; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/377029

ISSN

1537-5374

Autores

Simi Kedia, Abon Mozumdar,

Tópico(s)

Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance

Resumo

In recent years, as the global economy has become increasingly integrated, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of firms that have some business activity outside their country of incorporation.Such foreign involvement ranges from simple import or export activity to more complicated decisions including integrated global sourcing, production, and competition.These multinationals face many different product and capital markets, a myriad of legal regimes, political risks, and exchange rate uncertainty.We have little understanding of how this affects the financing patterns of multinational firms.In this article, we study a sample of large U.S. firms and examine their decision to issue foreign cur-

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