Trade credit and supplier competition

Chod, J, Lyandres, E and Yang, S A (2019) Trade credit and supplier competition. Journal of Financial Economics, 131 (2). pp. 484-505. ISSN 0304-405X OPEN ACCESS

Abstract

This paper examines how competition among suppliers affects their willingness to provide trade credit financing. Trade credit extended by a supplier to a cash constrained retailer allows the latter to increase cash purchases from its other suppliers, leading to a free rider problem. A supplier that represents a smaller share of the retailer's purchases internalizes a smaller part of the benefit from increased spending by the retailer and, as a result, extends less trade credit relative to its sales. In consequence, retailers with dispersed suppliers obtain less trade credit than those whose suppliers are more concentrated. The free rider problem is especially detrimental to a trade creditor when the free-riding suppliers are its product market competitors, leading to a negative relation between product substitutability among suppliers to a given retailer and trade credit that the former provide to the latter. We test the model using both simulated and real data. The estimated relations are consistent with the model's predictions and are statistically and economically significant.

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Item Type: Article
Subject Areas: Management Science and Operations
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© 2018 Elsevier B V. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Date Deposited: 15 Dec 2017 10:26
Date of first compliant deposit: 15 Dec 2017
Subjects: Credit management
Competition
International trade
Last Modified: 04 Oct 2024 01:59
URI: https://lbsresearch.london.edu/id/eprint/937
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