Impacts of Intellectual Capital on the Assets and Share Liquidity : Evidence from Tehran Stock Exchange

Asset and share liquidity regards two major subjects in financial literature. Liquidity increases firms’ attractiveness instock markets and reduces their risk and financing costs. According to the literature, one expect that firms with a higher value of intellectual capital intelligently pay more attention to their asset and shar liquidity. This research aims to investigate the impacts of intellectual capital on asset and share liquidity of companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange. For this purpose, data for 147 manufacturing companies for the period of 1388-1394 was gathered. In order to measure intellectual capital Pulic model applied. To measure the asset liquidity the liquidity ratio, and to measure share liquidity, the liquidity rank of companies that announces by Tehran Stock Exchange was used. In orer to test the hypothese, multi- variable regression models with combined data method applied. The results indicate significant relations between intellectual capital with both asset and share liquidity in Tehran Stock Exchange, which means that companies with a higher intellectual capital are more liquid.