Uncertainty Determinants of Corporate Liquidity

Christopher Baum (), Mustafa Caglayan (), Andreas Stephan () and Oleksandr Talavera

No 634, Boston College Working Papers in Economics from Boston College Department of Economics

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.

Keywords: liquidity; uncertainty; non-financial firms; dynamic panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 D8 D92 G32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-cfn and nep-fin
Date: 2005-12-07, Revised 2006-10-09
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Published, Economic Modelling, 25 (2008), pp. 833-849

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