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Business cycle and cash holdings: Empirical evidence from microfinance institutions

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  • Tchakoute Tchuigoua, Hubert
  • Simo, Christelle
  • Durrieu, François

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This study aims to determine whether the cash holdings of financial organizations with a social mission respond to the business cycle. Applying a matching approach to an international sample of 8,271 MFI-year observations over the period 2003–2018, we find that liquidity in financial organizations with a social mission is countercyclical (negative co-movement). Our results also suggest that profit-oriented institutions exhibit countercyclical cash holding behavior. Finally, we observe that this countercyclical effect depends both on the quality of assets held by MFIs and their ability to target borrowers with a greater ability to repay loans during bad times.

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  • Tchakoute Tchuigoua, Hubert & Simo, Christelle & Durrieu, François, 2022. "Business cycle and cash holdings: Empirical evidence from microfinance institutions," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 50(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:finlet:v:50:y:2022:i:c:s1544612322004305
    DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2022.103228
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    Keywords

    Business cycle; Microfinance; Liquidity; Developing economies;
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors

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