Abstract:
This study investigated the impacts of economics conditions that are economic growth, Opportunity Cost, Prediction of Future Economic and Liquidity of Financial markets on corporate cash holding of listed company. We use the secondary data of 369 listed companies from 1st quarter in 2001 to 4th quarter in 2009 and employ Panel Least Square Regressions with Fixed Effect Model The study finds that corporate will increase cash holding when economic expansion but decrease cash holding when high opportunity cost, economics trend to recession and tight financial market. This result can be concluded that The corporate cash holding did not hold cash for precaution motive but for the transaction cost motive. Moreover we find the speed of adjustment is faster when economic slowdown, high opportunity cost and low term spread. That implies that the recession the company will maintain the level of a reasonable cash offer on the expansion