Corporate Financial Policy and the Value of Cash under Uncertainty

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  • Christopher F Baum
  • DIW Berlin
  • Atreya Chakraborty
  • Boyan Liu
چکیده

In this paper we provide evidence on how firm-specific and macroeconomic uncertainty affects shareholders’ valuation of a firm’s cash holdings. This extends previous work on this issue by highlighting the importance of the source of uncertainty. Our findings indicate that increases in firm-specific risk generally increase the value of cash while increases in macroeconomic risk generally decrease the value of cash. These findings are robust to alternative definitions of the unexpected change in cash. We extend our analysis to financially constrained and unconstrained firms.

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تاریخ انتشار 2016