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Cash Reserves as a Hedge against Supply-Chain Risk

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  • Kulchania, Manoj
  • Thomas, Shawn

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Deregulation of the trucking industry and significantly lowered transportation costs led to large, widespread, and plausibly exogenous reductions in inventory for U.S. firms, with consequent increased supply-chain disruption (SCD) costs. We find evidence that increased SCD costs help explain the puzzling long-term trend of increasing average U.S. firm cash holdings. We also find that firms facing higher expected costs of disruptions generally save more cash from capital freed up via supply-chain management innovations. Finally, we document significant postdisruption declines in cash holdings consistent with cash as a primary source of financing during disruptions.

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  • Kulchania, Manoj & Thomas, Shawn, 2017. "Cash Reserves as a Hedge against Supply-Chain Risk," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 52(5), pages 1951-1988, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jfinqa:v:52:y:2017:i:05:p:1951-1988_00
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    2. Cardella, Laura & Fairhurst, Douglas & Klasa, Sandy, 2021. "What determines the composition of a firm's cash reserves?," Journal of Corporate Finance, Elsevier, vol. 68(C).
    3. Denis, David J. & McKeon, Stephen B., 2021. "Persistent negative cash flows, staged financing, and the stockpiling of cash balances," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 142(1), pages 293-313.
    4. Xiaodan Gao, 2018. "Corporate Cash Hoarding: The Role of Just-in-Time Adoption," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 64(10), pages 4858-4876, October.
    5. Tan, Jianhua & Wang, Xiongyuan & Chan, Kam C., 2020. "Does a national reform of a logistics system matter in corporate cash management? Evidence from logistics service standardization in China," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).
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