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Title: Currency depreciation and emerging market corporate distress

Author(s): Valentina G. Bruno and Hyun Song Shin

Publication Date: November 2018

Keyword(s): currency mismatch, emerging market corporate debt, global financial conditions and liability dollarization

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics and International Macroeconomics and Finance

Abstract: How do emerging market corporates fare during periods of currency depreciation? We find that non-financial firms that exploit favorable global financing conditions to issue US dollar bonds and build cash balances are also those whose share price is most vulnerable to local currency depreciation. In particular, firms' vulnerability to currency depreciation derives less from the foreign currency debt as such, but from the cash balances that are built up by using foreign currency debt. Overall, our results point to a financial motive for dollar bond issuance by emerging market firms in carry trade-like transactions that leave them vulnerable in an environment of dollar strength.

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Bruno, V and Shin, H. 2018. ' Currency depreciation and emerging market corporate distress'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=13298