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| Title: | | Uncertainty Determinants of Corporate Liquidity  |
| Authors: | | Baum, Christopher F. Caglayan, Mustafa Stephan, Andreas Talavera, Oleksandr |
| Issue Date: | | 2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | | DIW-Diskussionspapiere 633 |
| Abstract: | | This paper investigates the link between the optimal level of non-financial firms? liquid assets and uncertainty. We develop a partial equilibrium model of precautionary demand for liquid assets showing that firms alter their liquidity ratio in response to changes in either macroeconomic or idiosyncratic uncertainty. We test this hypothesis using a panel of non-financial US firms drawn from the COMPUSTAT quarterly database covering the period 1993?2002. The results indicate that firms increase their liquidity ratios when macroeconomic uncertainty or idiosyncratic uncertainty increases. |
| Subjects: | | liquidity uncertainty non-financial firms dynamic panel data |
| JEL: | | D92 D8 C23 G32 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW DIW-Diskussionspapiere
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