The Savings of Corporate Giants

Olivier Darmouni and Lira Mota

No 17192, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We construct a novel panel dataset to provide new evidence on how the largest nonfinancial firms manage their financial assets. Our granular data shows that, over the past decade, bond portfolios have grown to be at least as large as cash-like instruments, driven by the meteoric rise of corporate bond holdings. To shed light on the drivers of this growth, we conduct a pair of event studies around the 2017 tax reform and the 2020 liquidity crisis. Our new data suggests that the financial portfolios of corporate giants are primarily driven by cross-border tax incentives rather than liquidity motives.

Keywords: Superstar firms; Corporate cash; Corporate bonds; Repatriation tax; Liquidity management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-04
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