This paper empirically examines the impact of temporary agency work on firm performanceusing panel data from German establishments. Thereby, special attention is devoted to thequestion, whether there are performance differences between firms using temporary agencyworkers (TAWs) as a buffer stock...

This paper investigates the determinants of a broad sample of Swiss non-financial firms’cash holdings between 1995 and 2004. The median Swiss firm holds almost twice asmuch cash and cash equivalents as the median U.S. or U.K. firm. Our results indicate thatasset tangibility and firm size are...