On the other hand, we did not find a significant relationship between cash
holdings and growth opportunities (GROWP), which is consistent with the
results of Guney et al . (2003) for other countries integrated in the continental
model such a France and Germany. The variable SIZE3 is not significant either,which may be explained, as Ozkan and Ozkan (2004) point out, because otherf actors might affect the way in which a company’s size affects its cash holding
d ecisions. In this way, we also found no significant relationship with the
opportunity cost of the capital invested in liquid assets ( RSPREAD). Nor did we
find a significant relationship with the likelihood of financial distress and the
dummy variable DIV. This might be explained in terms of the opposite effects
each of these variables is expected to have on cash holdings and the possibility
that the effects cancel each other out. All those non-significant results are
c onsistent with a previous study made in the Spanish market of the determinants
of cash holdings (Garcia-Teruel and Martinez-Solano, 2005)