Marketable Securities: Storage or Investment?

56 Pages Posted: 12 Aug 2009 Last revised: 20 Oct 2014

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Craig Brown

Krannert School of Management, Purdue University

Date Written: October 15, 2014

Abstract

Corporate liquidity demand models view investments in marketable securities as a relatively simple store of excess liquidity (the storage view). However, compared to excess cash, marketable securities have more in common with investment and payout. For firms with repatriation tax exposure, constrained to a limited payout and permanent foreign real-investment plans, the average coefficient difference between excess cash and market investment regressions is zero. For all firms, the difference is 12%. The findings suggest that market investment is no longer a passive store of excess liquidity. Rather, market investment is associated with general investment and liability-driven investment.

Keywords: Market Investment, Liability-Driven Investment, Payout Policy, International Taxation

JEL Classification: G11, G31, G32, G35

Suggested Citation

Brown, Craig O., Marketable Securities: Storage or Investment? (October 15, 2014). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1446683 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1446683

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