In this paper, we extend corporate disclosure and cash holdings literature by testing whether voluntary risk affects for a sample of Tunisian non-financial listed companies. As measure disclosure, use manual content analysis to count the number risk-related sentences in narrative sections annual reports. holdings, ratio equivalent over total assets. Using 140 firm-year observations period 2008–...

Stock Liquidity and Corporate Cash Holdings: Feedback and the Cash as Ammunition Hypothesis We advance the feedback/cash as ammunition hypothesis, namely that firms hold cash to address feedback from stock prices to cash flows and growth opportunities. Firms with more liquid stocks are expected to hold more cash, the opposite of the prediction from a standard information asymmetry perspective o...

Although a firm’s use of shorter-term debt can potentially help it to reduce agency costs of debt and align managers’ interests with those of shareholders, the use of this type of debt increases the firm’s refinancing risk. We hypothesize that firms with debt that has a shorter maturity hold larger cash reserves to reduce important costs they could incur if they have difficulty refinancing thei...

This paper uses the second-generation antitakeover legislation as a natural experiment to understand corporate governance in‡uence on managerial decisions, speci…cally by examining in‡uences on …rms’liquidity choices between cash and loan commitments. These choices di¤er primarily in the allocation of ex-post control rights of …rms’liquidity reserves, which may lead to disagreement among stakeh...

In this paper, we examine how the cash holdings have an impact on R&D expenditures and whether the ownership mechanisms moderate the R&D expendituresthe resource of internal funds relationship. The result showed that cash holdings have a positively relationship with R&D expenditures. Specially, we found that institutional ownership had a positive moderating effect of the R&D expenditures-the re...

Using the quarterly Compustat files, we present empirical findings that business capital investment is significantly higher in the fourth quarter than in other quarters. Even after controlling for business capital investment determinants, we find that the fourth quarter capital investment is significantly larger but less sensitive to investment opportunities than other quarters’ capital investm...

The average cash holdings of Chinese-listed firms decreased significantly after the split share structure reform in China, which specified a process that allowed previously nontradable shares held by controlling shareholders to be freely tradable on the exchanges. The reduction in cash holdings is greater for firms with weaker governance and firms facing more financial constraints prior to the ...

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...