Credit risk spreads in local and foreign currencies / prepared by Dan Galai and Zvi Wiener.

The paper shows how-in a Merton-type model with bankruptcy-the currency composition of debt changes the risk profile of a company raising a given amount of financing, and thus affects the cost of debt. Foreign currency borrowing is cheaper when the exchange rate is positively correlated with the ret...

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Main Authors: Galai, Dan (Author), Wiener, Zvi (Author)
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, ©2009.
Series:IMF working paper ; WP/09/110.
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