We examine firms' simultaneous choice of investment, debt financing and liquidity in a large sample of US corporates between 1980 and 2014. We partition the sample according to the firms' financial constraints and their needs to hedge against future shortfalls in operating income. In contrast to...

Ensuring that a firm has sufficient liquidity to finance valuable projects that occur in the future is at the heart of the practice of financial management. Yet, while discussion of these issues goes back at least to Keynes (1936), a substantial literature on the ways in which firms manage...

We study the implications of financial hedging for corporate cash policy. Using a web crawler program to collect data on the use of financial derivatives, we find that firms with financial hedging programs have smaller cash reserves but a higher value of cash than firms without hedging contracts...

We explore how trade credit complements cash holdings in product market competition. First, similar to cash to cash flow sensitivity (Almeida, Campello, and Weisbach 2004), we report that trade credit is sensitive to internal cash flows and this sensitivity is moderated by firms' financial...

The experience of the 2007-09 financial crisis has prompted much consideration of the link between the structure of compensation in financial firms and excessive risk taking by their employees. A key concern has been that compensation design rewards managers for pursuing risky strategies but...

The traditional link between the cash conversion cycle and the firm's profitability is that shortening the cash conversion cycle increases firm's profitability. On the other hand shortening the cash conversion cycle could harm the firm's operations and reduce profitability. This could happen...

We examine the market mispricing and limits-to-arbitrage hypotheses on the positive relation between cash holdings and expected stock returns. Using investor sentiment as a proxy for market mispricing, we find that returns of cash holding stocks are heavily influenced by investor sentiment....

This paper provides new evidence on the link between financial constraints and corporate cash policy. Using time-series data for US public and private manufacturing firms, we find negative correlation between cash holdings and cost-of-carry for large firms. We find no evidence of such a relation...

Using a database of more than 180,000 private companies from 2000 to 2009, we find that the benefits of holding more cash vary substantially with a firm's size and the conditions it faces. Cash holdings matter most for small firms: when there are negative shocks to industry or macroeconomic...

This paper addresses the following unresolved questions: Why do some firms issue equity instead of debt? Why did most firms retain their cash holdings instead of distributing them as dividends in recent times? How do firms change their financing policies during a period of severe financial...