Financing R&D Spending: The Role of Corporate Cash Holdings

Masataka Mori and Juan Sanchez

On the Economy from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: Firms with higher R&D spending tend to hold more cash. In recent years, as AI investment has increased, R&D intensity has gone up while cash ratios have declined.

Keywords: research and development; corporate cash holdings; artificial intelligence (AI); internal liquidity management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-03-12
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