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Corporate cash holdings: Causes and consequences

open access: yesInternational Review of Financial Analysis, 2015
The considerable growth in corporate cash holdings around the world has prompted scholarly interest. Consequently, there is now a large academic literature examining cash holdings and their impact on corporate outcomes and firm values. This article reviews and synthesizes the literature to offer insight into two primary motives to hold cash ...
Amess, Kevin   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determining the Relationship between Accruals Quality and Cash Holdings for Listed Companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange [PDF]

open access: yesمجله دانش حسابداری, 2012
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the accruals quality and the cash holdings for the listed companies in the Tehran Stock Exchange.
Shokrollah Khajavi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effect of government quality on corporate cash holdings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We use China as a laboratory to test the effect of government quality on cash holdings. We build on, and extend, the existing literature on government expropriation and its interaction with firm-level agency problems by proposing a financial constraint ...
Chen, D, Li, S, Xiao, J, Zou, H
core   +2 more sources

Policy Uncertainty and Firm Cash Holdings

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2017
This research examines the relations between government economic policy uncertainty and firm cash holdings and the value of cash. We find robust evidence that policy uncertainty is positively related to corporate cash holdings due to firms’ precautionary motives and investment delays.
Hieu V. Phan   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Internal Corporate Governance and Cash Holding in China: The Moderating Effect of Product Market Competition

open access: yesSAGE Open
Asymmetric information and economic uncertainty result in more severe financial constraints on Chinese enterprises. This induces them to hold more cash to defend against economic uncertainty and intense market competition.
Le Bo, Jia Li
doaj   +1 more source

Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate cash holdings: Evidence from a different institutional setting [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper investigates the determinants of Swiss non-financial firms’ cash holdings over the 1995 to 2004 period. The median Swiss firm holds almost twice as much cash and cash equivalents as the median UK or US firm.
Matthias C. Grüninger, Wolfgang Dobetz
core  

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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