Litigation Risk and Hedging

Firms operating in the United States face important litigation risk, yet little is known on how this risk affects financial decisions. I use a natural experiment to explore the effect of litigation risk on firms' hedging behavior. I find that firms are more likely to use financial derivatives f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alkhamis, Mohammad Bader
Other Authors: Klasa, Sandy
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621281
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/621281