the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between growth opportunities, risks, and relative changes in the company's cash assets. this study is a literature study and analysis was based on an analysis of panel data. in this study, a financial data of 112 companies listed in tehran stock exchange during the period 2009 to 2014 have been reviewed. the results in relation to t...

The psychological factors of senior executives have an important impact on the firm’s financial policies. In this paper, we investigate association between CEO risk-taking entrepreneurial spirit and firm cash holdings, find that firms with higher less holdings. Further, financing constraints can mitigate negative whereas needs enhances them. Mechanism test illustrates affects holdings through c...

An examination of survey responses about Individual Retirement Account (IRA) holdings reveals that individuals often take all-or-nothing approaches in their decisions to diversify across the asset categories of cash, bonds, and equity. Two thirds of survey respondents put their entire IRA holdings into a single asset category. A surprisingly large proportion of funds is held in cash, while only...

We comprehensively examine the effects of stock return volatility on firms’ financial and investment decisions. Consistent with theories of investment with financing frictions, firms with high volatility actively reduce their leverage, cut investment, increase cash holding, cut non-cash current assets such as inventories and account receivables, and cut dividend. The effects of volatility are s...

This paper examines how equity analysts affect corporate liquidity policy and the value of cash. Greater analyst coverage reduces information asymmetry between a firm and outside shareholders and enhances the monitoring process, in turn increasing the value of cash and allowing firms to hold more cash. The cash-to-assets ratio increases by 5.2 percentage points when moving from the bottom analy...

We examine whether and how a US cross-listing mitigates the risk that insiders will turn their firm’s cash holdings into private benefits. We find strong evidence that the value investors attach to excess cash reserves is substantially larger for foreign firms listed on US exchanges and over-the-counter than for their domestic peers. Further, we show that this excess-cash premium stems not only...