Published in:Banco de Espana Working Paper ; No. 2005 (2020)
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1 Online-Ressource (39 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.3548000
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments March 2, 2020 erstellt
Description:
We explore the link between firms' dollar bond borrowing and their FX-hedged funding opportunities, as reflected in a positive corporate basis (the relative cost of local to synthetic currency borrowing). Consistent with previous research, we first document that firms substitute domestic for dollar borrowing when they have higher dollar revenues or long-term assets and when the corporate basis widens. Importantly, our novel firm-level dataset enables to show that when these funding opportunities appear, the currency substitution is stronger for very high-grade firms, as they can offer to investors close substitutes for safe dollar assets. However, firms with higher dollar revenues or long-term assets do not react to changes in the corporate basis. Altogether, the composition of dollar borrowers shifts when the basis widens, as high-grade firms gain importance, relative to firms with operational needs