Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24010 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 04-10
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the effects of macroeconomic volatility on nonfinancial firms cash holding behavior. Using an augmented cash bufferstock model, we demonstrate that an increase in macroeconomic volatility will cause the crosssectional distribution of firms cashtoasset ratios to narrow. We test this prediction on a panel of nonfinancial firms drawn from the annual COMPUSTAT database covering the period 19572000, and find that as macroeconomic uncertainty increases, firms behave more homogeneously. Our results are shown to be robust to the inclusion of the levels of several macroeconomic factors.
Subjects: 
Cash holdings
macroeconomic uncertainty
time series
ARCH
nonfinancial Firms.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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