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The Effects of Industry-Level Uncertainty on Cash Holdings: The Case of Germany

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dc.creator Baum, Christopher F.
dc.creator Schäfer, Dorothea
dc.creator Talavera, Oleksandr
dc.date 2006
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:00:28Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:00:28Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18531
dc.identifier ppn:519892011
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18531
dc.description This paper investigates the link between the optimal level of non-financial firms' liquid assets and industry-level uncertainty. We develop a structural model of a firm's value maximization problem that predicts that as industry-level uncertainty increases the firm will increase its optimal level of liquidity. We test this hypothesis using a panel of German firms drawn from the Bundesbank's balance sheet database and show that greater uncertainty at the industry level causes firms to increase their cash holdings. The strength of these effects differ among subsamples of the firms with different characteristics.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin
dc.relation DIW-Diskussionspapiere 638
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject L14
dc.subject G31
dc.subject G32
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Uncertainty
dc.subject cash holdings
dc.subject liquidity
dc.subject non-financial firms
dc.subject Betriebliche Liquidität
dc.subject Unternehmenswert
dc.subject Verarbeitendes Gewerbe
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title The Effects of Industry-Level Uncertainty on Cash Holdings: The Case of Germany
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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