A note on the new wave of foreign-currency debt for LAC non-financial firms

This paper presents new evidence on foreign-currency debt of non-financial compa-nies in six Latin-American countries, including years in the aftermath of the sub-pri-me crisis. The paper differentiates between total debt and financial debt in foreign currency. Main results indicate that some firm-s...

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Autores principales: García Cicco, Javier, Kawamura, Enrique
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS - UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/REPBA/article/view/1572
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Sumario:This paper presents new evidence on foreign-currency debt of non-financial compa-nies in six Latin-American countries, including years in the aftermath of the sub-pri-me crisis. The paper differentiates between total debt and financial debt in foreign currency. Main results indicate that some firm-specific features are key to unders-tand foreign currency debt. Exporting firms behave differently between total fore-ign-currency debt and financial currency debt. Exporters hold more total foreign-currency debt than the average firm while they hold less financial foreign-currency debt. Foreign-owned firms hold less total debt in foreign currency. Macroeconomic variables only play some role when interacting with specific firm characteristics.