Acharya, Viral V.; Almeida, Heitor; Amihud, Yakov; Liu, Ping - 2022
substitute between saving cash for financial hedging to mitigate financial default risk, and spending on operational hedging to … mitigate operational default risk. Whereas financial hedging increases in financial leverage, operational hedging declines in … credit risk, which is stronger for firms facing financing constraints. We present empirical evidence supporting the …