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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of firms' cash holdings and ownership concentration on the firms' valuation using an unbalanced panel dataset of non-financial listed firms in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – The author used a generalized method of...
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We study how non-listed firms trade off financial, real, and distributive uses of cash. We show that firms' marginal value of cash (MVC) affects the mix of external and internal finance used to absorb fluctuations in cash flows; in particular, high-MVC firms employ substantially more external...
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This study examines the relationship between government deficit and corporate liquidity (cash holdings). Using data of … nonfinancial firms in Taiwan from 1981 to 2009, this study finds that corporate liquidity is lower when government deficit is … higher. In addition, corporate liquidity is related with other macroeconomic conditions, such as inflation, short …
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The present study investigates corporate liquidity (cash holdings) in emerging markets from 1990 to 2006. During the …
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be prudent about their future prospects. The second mechanism is linked to the liquidity motive requiring firms to meet … their current liquidity needs. We find that the mechanism embedded in the liquidity motive best explains how the increased …
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Agency problems are an important determinant of corporate liquidity. For a sample of more than 11,000 firms from 45 … that generally drive the need for liquidity, such as investment opportunities and asymmetric information, actually become …
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corporations and use it to re-examine the existing findings on corporate liquidity. We show that the availability of credit lines …-off theory of liquidity according to which firms target an optimum level of liquidity, computed as the sum of cash and undrawn … credit lines. We provide support for the existence of a liquidity target, but also show that the reasons why firms hold cash …
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corporations and use it to re-examine the existing findings on corporate liquidity. We show that the availability of credit lines …-off theory of liquidity according to which firms target an optimum level of liquidity, computed as the sum of cash and undrawn … credit lines. We provide support for the existence of a liquidity target, but also show that the reasons why firms hold cash …
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In this cross-country analysis, we find evidence of a positive relation between creditor rights and the level of corporate cash holdings. In addition, we find that the excess cash motivated by creditor rights has a significant negative impact on firm value. These relationships, however, are...
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We examine whether and, if so, how a U.S. cross-listing mitigates the risk that managers will squander corporate cash holdings. We find strong evidence that the value investors attach to excess cash reserves is substantially larger for foreign firms listed on U.S. exchanges and over the counter...
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