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The Sensitivity of Cash Savings to the Cost of Capital / Viral V. Acharya, Soku Byoun, Zhaoxia Xu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Acharya, Viral V.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w27517.
- NBER working paper series no. w27517
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- We show theoretically and empirically that in the presence of a time-varying cost of capital (COC), firms have a hedging motive to reduce the overall COC over time by saving cash when COC is relatively low. The sensitivity of cash savings to COC is especially pronounced with respect to the cost of equity and for firms with greater correlation between COC and financing needs for future investments. Both financially constrained and unconstrained firms respond to low COC by saving cash out of external capital issuance in excess of current financial needs.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2020.
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