Tail risk spillovers and corporate cash holdings

Chiu, W.-C., Wang, C.-W. and Peña, J. I. (2016) Tail risk spillovers and corporate cash holdings. Journal of Multinational Financial Management, 36, pp. 30-48. (doi: 10.1016/j.mulfin.2016.07.001)

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Abstract

This paper investigates tail risk spillovers from the financial sector to real economy firms in the United States and the United Kingdom from 2003 to 2011. We measure these spillovers by evaluating the number of joint occurrences of extreme negative returns in a nonfinancial firm conditional on an extreme negative return in the financial sector. Such spillovers increased dramatically in the 2007–2009 crisis. We also examine whether cash holdings act as a buffer in mitigating these spillovers. Our results indicate that greater cash holdings are associated with lower levels of tail risk spillovers for financially constrained firms and more strongly so among constrained firms with high hedging needs and no ratings (i.e., firms with restricted external financing sources). Overall, our findings support the view that the greater cash holdings of constrained firms act as a shock absorber against costly external financing.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Chiu, Dr Wan-Chien
Authors: Chiu, W.-C., Wang, C.-W., and Peña, J. I.
College/School:College of Social Sciences > Adam Smith Business School > Accounting and Finance
Journal Name:Journal of Multinational Financial Management
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:1042-444X
ISSN (Online):1873-1309
Published Online:25 July 2016

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