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Asymmetric hedging of the corporate terms of trade

✍ Scribed by Roger Bowden; Jennifer Zhu

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 414 KB
Volume: 26
Category: Article
ISSN: 0270-7314
DOI: 10.1002/fut.20232

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✦ Synopsis

Thanks go to Dawn Lorimer, editor Robert Webb, and a referee for comments that helped to focus discussion. The paper was delivered by Jennifer Zhu at the Australasian economics and finance PhD students conference in November 2005, and both authors are grateful to discussant Susan Thorp for a picking up some slips and other helpful comments.

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