Corporate cash holdings and monetary shocks: A test of the credit channel theory

Yiling Deng and Haibo Yao

Review of Financial Economics, 2021, vol. 39, issue 2, 203-222

Abstract: This paper studies the impact of monetary shocks on corporate cash holdings before the 2008 financial crisis. We find evidence supporting the credit channel theory that industrial firms increase cash holdings when monetary policy is unexpectedly tightened. The impact is more pronounced for financially constrained, high managerial compensation incentives, domestic firms, and during recession. Furthermore, we examine the structural increase in cash holdings in the 2000s, we find that industrial firms continuously increase cash holdings when monetary policy is persistently and unexpectedly tightened, which overweighs the reversal effect of monetary policy.

Date: 2021
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