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Information Aggregation, Security Design, and Currency Swaps

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  • Mark Grinblatt
  • Bhagwan Chowdhry
  • David Levine

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A security design model shows that multinational firms needing to finance their operations should issue different securities to investors in different countries in order to aggregate their disparate information about domestic and foreign cash flows. However, if the firm becomes bankrupt, investors may face uncertain costs of reorganizing assets in a foreign country and thus ma

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  • Mark Grinblatt & Bhagwan Chowdhry & David Levine, 2002. "Information Aggregation, Security Design, and Currency Swaps," Yale School of Management Working Papers ysm38, Yale School of Management.
    • Handle: RePEc:ysm:somwrk:ysm38
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