The marginal value of cash in Korean retail firmsopen access
- Authors
- Lee, Jeong-Hwan; Kim, Sang-Su
- Issue Date
- Feb-2016
- Publisher
- Korea Distribution Science Association (KODISA)
- Keywords
- Marginal Value of Cash; Financial Constraint; Manager-Shareholder Conflicts; Cash Management.
- Citation
- Journal of Distribution Science, v.14, no.2, pp.13 - 22
- Indexed
- SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- Journal of Distribution Science
- Volume
- 14
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 13
- End Page
- 22
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/155145
- DOI
- 10.15722/JDS.14.2.201602.13
- ISSN
- 1738-3110
- Abstract
- Purpose We examine the marginal - value of cash in Korean retail firms, largely unexamined in literature. The marginal value of cash plays pivotal role in cash management policy; especially, a significantly low marginal cash value indicates substantial manager-shareholder conflicts. Research design, data, and methodology - We estimate marginal cash values by adopting the approach of Faulkender & Wang (2006). The sample of retail firms traded in Korean Stock Exchange from 1991 to 2013 is analyzed.
Results - We estimate the marginal value of cash for the retail firms as 0.75, implying significant manager-shareholder conflicts. We find a lower marginal value of cash for financially constrained retail firms, contradicting existing theories. The marginal value of cash increases substantially after 2000s, suggesting severe agency conflicts in 1990s as a key reason behind our findings.
Conclusions - Our findings support the substantial resource diversion problem in Korean firms and the agency theory of cash management policy. Our results argue against the widely accepted view focusing on implications of financial constraints, which highlights a need of new cash management theory.
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