We investigate how transient institutional ownership influences the level and value of cash holdings. We show that transient institutional ownership has a positive effect on cash holdings, and this linkage is more pronounced when stock and credit market conditions are less favorable. Using a...

This study examines the adjustment speed of cash holdings. Our sample comprises all nonfinancial firms listed on the NYSE, over a period from 1962 to 2014. We employ a multi-faceted empirical strategy including: (1) a dummy variable approach; (2) a cubic model; (3) a threshold regression model....

This study examines the impact of cash holdings on firm value before and during the 2008 financial crisis. In answering this question, our analysis assesses the conditioning effect of financial constraints and corporate governance. In our core analysis we show that the equity market places a...

This paper studies how firms manage liquidity around seasoned equity offerings and the impact of such behaviour on long run performance. We identify a pre-issue ‘debt trap' scenario where issuers raise equity to escape from the debt trap problem. We find some evidence that issuers with a debt...

This study examines the motivations for seasoned equity offering and the decomposition strategy that breaks the book-to-market ratio into misvaluation and growth components. In logit-based tests, we find strong support for the misvaluation explanation, which predict that firms issue when...