Economics and Finance Faculty Publications and Presentations

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-2021

Abstract

Consistent with the agency view of cash holdings, we document a strong negative relationship between economic policy uncertainty and corporate cash holdings for non-U.S. firms from 19 countries. Our results are robust to different measures of cash holdings and model specifications and survive after addressing endogeneity. We provide evidence that the decrease in cash holdings is moderated by shareholders' ability to force managers to disgorge cash that fits consistently within the agency framework. Overall, results suggest that lowering cash holdings help alleviate agency problems in the presence of policy uncertainty and underscore the significance of country attributes in corporate finance.

Comments

© 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Original published version available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2021.101859

Publication Title

International Review of Financial Analysis

DOI

10.1016/j.irfa.2021.101859

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Finance Commons

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