We examine the impact of corporate governance on cash holdings and the interplay of family ownership on this relationship through static and dynamic panel estimation models. Composite indicator for the corporate governance based on several proxies related to corporate board structure and...

This paper focuses on the effect of managerial ownership on cash holdings in a sample of private family firms. Our results suggest that managerial ownership has a significant impact on cash holdings. Cash holdings are largest in the firms with no managerial ownership and lowest in the firms in...

This study examines the effect of excess control rights on cash holding policy of Chinese family controlled firms. We find that excess control rights are positively associated to firms' cash holding of family controlled firms and that the high cash holding are tunnelled by controlling families...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of board attributes and insider ownership on cash holdings of non-financial firms listed on Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) Pakistan during 2008-2012. Empirical results indicate that board attributes such as CEO duality, board size and board...