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Excess Cash Holdings,Over - investment and Agency Cost
—Based on Experience Data of Life Insurance Companies between 2006 and 2012
ZHAO Jingtao1
,LIU Zhongyi2
,LIU Jiacheng3
( 1. School of economics,Peking University,Beijing 100871;
2. School of police administration,People’s Public Security University of China,Beijing 100038;
3. Zero2IPO Group,Beijing 100125)
Abstract: This paper mainly studied the excess cash holdings and over - investment based on the data of 34 life
insurance companies between 2006 and 2012. Moreover,the relationship between excess cash holdings and over -
investment was further explored. The results showed that there were the problems of capital constraint and excess
cash holdings in China’s life insurance companies. Due to the stringent supervision,the problem of over - invest-
ment was not serious,but there was a significant correlation between excess cash holdings and over - investment. In
life insurance companies,excess cash holdings increase the agency problem,which is the main factor of over - in-
vestment. The greater the asset is,the worse the problem is. However the over - investment problem is relatively light
in the life insurance companies with a foreign stake.
Key words: life insurance companies; optimal cash holdings; excess cash holdings; over - investment
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