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I'm an Economics Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley focusing on public finance topics at the intersection of labor economics and macroeconomics. My current research focus is on the interaction of corporate taxation, firm location decisions, and the location and scale of economic activity. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.
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Tag Archives: Cash
Repatriation Holidays
Many companies have been pushing for a repatriation holiday and recent reports have highlighted how much cash is held overseas. A little more than half the companies in the Fortune 500 have at least $1.6 trillion in untaxed profits parked offshore, … Continue reading
Large-Scale Asset Purchases by Jeremy Stein
Here’s Greg Ip on Jeremy Stein’s recent LSAP speeches (Oct 11, Nov 30): If Mr Stein’s story is right, we should expect to see corporations exploiting the drop in long-term rates to refinance short-term debt and repurchase stock but not boost … Continue reading
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How much cash are companies sitting on? More than a trillion
According to Lloyd Blankfein’s WSJ op-ed, cash holdings of non-financial companies amount to more than a trillion. Cash holdings have been high for the past few years, but I haven’t looked at the numbers on this lately and I found … Continue reading
