This paper empirically investigates whether the degree of corruption affected the corporate cash holdings of Chinese-listed non-financial firms over the 2003-2013 period. We find that corporate cash holdings are negatively correlated with measures of corruption. For firms facing fewer financing...

Using corporate payout data from 33 economies around the world, this study investigates the relations among stock repurchases, dividends and firm value (as well as cash value) under different investor protection environments. We find that stock repurchases contribute more to firm value in...

Using data from 41 different countries including the United States, we provide novel empiricalevidence that firms increase their cash holdings as a response to climate risk. This effect is drivenby financially constrained firms and becomes significantly stronger after the release of the...

This study empirically analyzes the effects of political corruption on corporate cash holdings policy and the impact of cash holdings on firm performance using 97 multinational data. We find that there is a nonlinear cubic function relationship between the political corruption and corporate cash...

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...

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...

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. However, although discussion of these issues goes back at least to Keynes (1936), a substantial literature on the ways in which firms...

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...