Multinationals, Hedging, and Capital Structure under Exchange Rate Uncertainty

Udo Broll (udo.broll@mailbox.tu-dresden.de) and Kit Wong (kpwong@econ.hku.hk)

Open Economies Review, 2006, vol. 17, issue 1, 103-114

Abstract: This paper examines the interplay of the financing and hedging decisions of a risk-averse multinational firm having a wholly-owned foreign subsidiary. Exchange rate risk management of the multinational firm is shown to have direct impacts on its international capital structure decision and on its currency of denomination decision. If a currency forward market exists, the multinational firm will devise its international capital structure so as to minimize the global weighted average cost of capital. Or else the multinational firm has to rely on a money market hedge through issuing more foreign currency denominated debt and less domestic currency denominated debt, thereby resulting in a higher global weighted average cost of capital. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2006

Keywords: multinationals; hedging; capital structure; exchange rate uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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