We document cash management patterns for households that are at odds with the predictions of deterministic inventory models that abstract from precautionary motives. We extend the Baumol–Tobin cash inventory model to a dynamic environment that allows for the possibility of withdrawing cash at random times at a low cost. This modification introduces a precautionary motive for holding cash and na...

This paper analyzes how human capital and economic uncertainty affect capital structure and managerial compensation. We model a competitive industry where wealth constrained managers provide human capital that can be transferred across firms, and where equityholders give managers access to the physical assets of the firm. Equityholders and managers bargain for the firm’s stochastic free cash fl...

This paper examines how ownership structure and institutional development influence the liquidity management and investment policies of firms, in response to the threat of political extraction in China. First, we document evidence that firms controlled by private entrepreneurs hold less cash reserves than their state-owned counterparts. In addition, cash holdings (investments) is positively (ne...

Cash is an important means of transaction, generally assumed to be fungible. However, behavioral economics and consumer research show that ‘cash in hand’, physically holding on cash then handing it away, affects purchasing decisions. I study how hand influences decisions a different, but very domain: savings. Savings accounts are promising tool for reducing poverty, the use savings often puzzli...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects debt policy, good corporate governance, cash holding, and sales growth on value company. method used in research is a quantitative through secondary data form financial information manufacturing companies listed Indonesia Stock Exchange starting 2018 until 2021. Data obtained from www.idx.co.id www.finance.yahoo.com, company's official webs...

Beginning in 1959, Federal Reserve member banks were allowed to use both vault cash and deposits at Federal Reserve Banks to satisfy statutory reserve requirements. Prior to this time, member banks were restricted to satisfying required reserves solely with deposits at Federal Reserve Banks. Hence, member banks held currency in their vaults only to satisfy daily demands by depositors. Fluctuati...

In light of the recent regulatory changes and the increase in cash reserves after the financial crisis of 2007-08, we examine the determinants of cash levels and the effects of excess cash on bank’s business policies, for both listed and unlisted banks. As for the determinants, we find that larger, more profitable, more capitalized, and more diversified banks hold less cash. As for bank’s polic...