Risk Incentive Problems and Foreign Currency Bonds

Authors

  • Jacques A. Schnabel Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
  • Ebrahim Roumi University of New Brunswick

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/1057-0810(95)90028-4

Abstract

This paper examines the incentives of stockholders to expropriate bondholder wealth by changing the probability distribution of the firm’s assets in a corporation with foreign currency denominated debt outstanding. It is shown that foreign currency bonds attenuate the incentives of stockholders to engage in this wealth expropriation by increasing the volatility of corporate assets. However, foreign currency bonds provide the stockholders with new scope for engaging in this wealth expropriation by altering the correlation between the exchange rate on the foreign currency and the value of corporate assets. Journal of Economics and Business, August 1994,46(3): 167-175. (Reprinted with permission of the Journal of Economics and Business.)

Published

1995-06-30

How to Cite

Schnabel, J. A., & Roumi , E. (1995). Risk Incentive Problems and Foreign Currency Bonds. Financial Services Review, 4(1), 64. https://doi.org/10.1016/1057-0810(95)90028-4

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (1995): Financial Services Review

Section

Abstracts of Articles on Individual Financial Management

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