The impacts of company characteristics on corporate cash holdings: An empirical investigation of US firms.

The corporate liquidity has attracted extensive attentions in the financial field. This empirical research investigates the determinants that influence the corporate cash holdings, the sample selection is all US firms for the period from 2004 to 2014. Three research models are applied in this resear...

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Main Author: SHI, TENGFEI
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45942/
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description The corporate liquidity has attracted extensive attentions in the financial field. This empirical research investigates the determinants that influence the corporate cash holdings, the sample selection is all US firms for the period from 2004 to 2014. Three research models are applied in this research, which are OLS model, fixed effect model and SGMM model; the OLS model provides a general view of the determinants of cash holding, then the fixed effect model represents more detailed results as some other firm characteristics are added. The final results are mostly consistent with previous studies and theories, which suggests that cash flow is positively related with the cash retention, this implies the firms are willing to save more cash from the cash flow. Furthermore, firm size, leverage and non-cash liquidity are negatively correlated with the corporate cash holdings. In the end, the SGMM model is employed to ensure the empirical result is accurate.
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spelling nottingham-459422018-04-17T15:13:17Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45942/ The impacts of company characteristics on corporate cash holdings: An empirical investigation of US firms. SHI, TENGFEI The corporate liquidity has attracted extensive attentions in the financial field. This empirical research investigates the determinants that influence the corporate cash holdings, the sample selection is all US firms for the period from 2004 to 2014. Three research models are applied in this research, which are OLS model, fixed effect model and SGMM model; the OLS model provides a general view of the determinants of cash holding, then the fixed effect model represents more detailed results as some other firm characteristics are added. The final results are mostly consistent with previous studies and theories, which suggests that cash flow is positively related with the cash retention, this implies the firms are willing to save more cash from the cash flow. Furthermore, firm size, leverage and non-cash liquidity are negatively correlated with the corporate cash holdings. In the end, the SGMM model is employed to ensure the empirical result is accurate. 2017-09-13 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45942/1/Dissertation11.pdf SHI, TENGFEI (2017) The impacts of company characteristics on corporate cash holdings: An empirical investigation of US firms. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] Corporate cash holdings Firms characteristics Fixed effect model SGMM model
spellingShingle Corporate cash holdings
Firms characteristics
Fixed effect model
SGMM model
SHI, TENGFEI
The impacts of company characteristics on corporate cash holdings: An empirical investigation of US firms.
title The impacts of company characteristics on corporate cash holdings: An empirical investigation of US firms.
title_full The impacts of company characteristics on corporate cash holdings: An empirical investigation of US firms.
title_fullStr The impacts of company characteristics on corporate cash holdings: An empirical investigation of US firms.
title_full_unstemmed The impacts of company characteristics on corporate cash holdings: An empirical investigation of US firms.
title_short The impacts of company characteristics on corporate cash holdings: An empirical investigation of US firms.
title_sort impacts of company characteristics on corporate cash holdings: an empirical investigation of us firms.
topic Corporate cash holdings
Firms characteristics
Fixed effect model
SGMM model
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45942/