Three issues are addressed in this paper; What are the important cash holding determinants? Do firms adjust cash levels toward their optimal ones? Do holding more cash contribute to stock return? The data covers between 1998 and 2008 for firms from Korea, Taiwan and Japan. We find that earning...

While the role of taxation in influencing FDI has received considerable attention in literature, there has been very less work on examining the role of fiscal policy as a whole on FDI inflows. The dimension of fiscal policy that relates to the expenditure of the government has not received much...