• 재무관리연구
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.1-32
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 $1999{\sim}2004$년 기간중 14,016개의 한국제조기업 표본(패널자료)을 이용하여 현금 비율의 변화와 그 결정요인을 분석하였다. 주요 분석결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 기간중 평균 현금 비율은 1999년 말의 4.7%로부터 2004년 말의 5.2%로 상승하였으며, 1개사당 평균 현금보유액도 1999년말의 43억 원에서 2004년 말에는 80억 원으로 2배 정도 상승하였다. 전체 현금보유액중 51대 기업집단이 차지하는 비중은 1999년의 47.6%에서 2004년에는 58.6%로 상승하여 재벌기업의 현금보유 집중도가 최근 들어 더욱 강화되는 것으로 나타났다. 현금비율 및 현금흐름 대비 자본지출의 비율은 전기에는 120.8% 및 56.4%에 달하였으나 후기에는 86.5% 및 48.8%로 각각 하락함으로써 현금보유 수준이나 현금흐름에 비하여 시설투자가 위축되고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 현금보유에 관한 목표조정모형과 순위모형을 검증하기 위한 회귀식을 추정한 결과, 목표현금비율 괴리도의 회귀계수 부호는 예상대로 음(-)으로 높은 유의수준을 나타냈으나, 자금부족 변수의 회귀계수 부호는 순위모형의 예상과는 다르게 양(+)으로 나타났다. 셋째, 현금비율을 종속변수로 하고 기업특성변수를 설명변수로 한 회귀모형을 추정한 결과 유형자산규모, 투자기회, 현금흐름의 변동성, 부채비율, 재벌기업더미, 상장기업더미 등은 절충이론에 따른 유의적인 설명력을 보였고, 현금흐름, 투자지출, 자본지출, 순부채발행, 순주식발행, 상장기업더미 등은 순위이론에 따른 유의적인 설명력을 보였다. 결정계수나 F-statistic 등의 통계량으로 미루어 볼 때 절충이론에서 제시된 변수들이 현금비율의 변동을 더 잘 설명하는 것으로 나타났다. 결론적으로 이 기간중 한국제조기업의 현금비율의 변동을 설명함에 있어 순위이론보다는 절충이론이 더 적합한 것으로 판단되고 있다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.75-87
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• 2020

This paper aims to not only investigate the nature of financial security and its measurement, but also to compare financial security level in 629 listed companies divided into four different industries (materials, industrials, health care, and consumer goods) before building a theoretical framework and regression models to examine the determinants of financial security. By gathering 2,167 financial statements published in Vietnamese Stock Exchange during eight years from 2012 to 2019, with the support of STATA, the research results indicate that six different internal factors, which are liquidity, profitability, firm size, debt management ratios, asset management ratios, and cash flows, explain 77.7% the change of financial security ratio and 3.4% the change in sustainable growth ratio. Specifically, while firm size has a positive impact on sustainable growth ratio but a negative impact on financial security ratio, deb management and profitability have an insignificant influence on the financial security level. Furthermore, an increase in asset management ratios would result positively in both two dependent variables whereas a rise in sustainable growth and a decline in financial security ratio are expected to witness if there is an increase in cash flows.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.65-88
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• 2021

Purpose - This paper aims to examine the determinants of SWFs' investment in Asian countries and to identify consistent investment patterns of SWFs in specific target firms from Asia, particularly China and South Korea. Design/methodology - This study extends the Tobin's Q model to examine the relationship between SWF investments in target firms and their returns with other firm-level control variables. We collect consistent data on SWF investments and the matched firm-level data on target firms, which of observation is 1,512 firms (333 in South Korea and 1,179 in China) targeted by 20 SWF sources during 1997-2017. The panel random effect model is used to estimate the extended Tobin's Q model. The robustness of the estimations is tested by the simultaneous equation models and the panel GEE model. Findings - The evidence shows that sovereign wealth funds are more inclined to invest in the financial sector with a monopoly position and in large firms with higher growth opportunity and superior cash asset ratios in China. In contrast to their investments in China, sovereign wealth funds in South Korea prefer to invest in strategic sectors, such as energy and information technology, and in large firms with high performance and low leverage. Sovereign wealth funds' investments tend to significantly improve the target firm's performance measured by sales growth and returns in both Korea and China. Originality/value - The existing literature focuses on examining the determination of SWFs investment in the developed countries, such as Europe and the United States. Our paper contributes to the literature in three ways; first, we analyzes case studies of SWF investments in Asian markets, which are less developed and riskier. Second, we examine whether the determination of SWF investment in Asian target firms depends on the different time periods, on types of sources of SWFs, and on acquiring countries. Third, our research uses vast sample data on target firms in longer time periods (1997-2017) than other previous studies on the SWFs for Asian markets.