scholarly journals Curbing Shocks to Corporate Liquidity: The Role of Trade Credit

2020 ◽  
pp. 000-000
Author(s):  
Niklas Amberg ◽  
Tor Jacobson ◽  
Erik von Schedvin ◽  
Robert Townsend
Keyword(s):  
Trade Credit ◽  
Corporate Liquidity

scholarly journals Curbing Shocks to Corporate Liquidity: The Role of Trade Credit

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niklas Amberg ◽  
Tor Jacobson ◽  
Erik von Schedvin ◽  
Robert Townsend
Keyword(s):  
Trade Credit ◽  
Corporate Liquidity

scholarly journals Trade Credit and Product Pricing: The Role of Implicit Interest Rates

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niklas Amberg ◽  
Tor Jacobson ◽  
Erik von Schedvin
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Trade Credit ◽  
Opportunity Costs ◽  
Price Setting ◽  
Firm Characteristics ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Transaction Prices ◽  
Financial Conditions ◽  
Product Pricing

Abstract We empirically investigate the proposition that firms charge premia on cash prices in transactions involving trade credit. Using a comprehensive panel data set on product-level transaction prices and firm characteristics, we relate trade credit issuance to price setting. In a recession characterized by tightened credit conditions, we find that prices increase significantly more on products sold by firms issuing more trade credit, in response to higher opportunity costs of liquidity and counterparty risks. Our results thus demonstrate the importance of trade credit for price setting and show that trade credit issuance induces a channel through which financial conditions affect prices.

scholarly journals Impact of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Trade Credit Provision: The Role of Social Trust

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Liu ◽  
Daxin Dong
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Trade Credit ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Alternative Measure ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
The Impact

This paper explores the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on trade credit while taking into account the interactive role of social trust. The analysis is based on the panel data econometric model with fixed effects. Using firm-level data across 16 economies from 1995Q1 to 2015Q1, we find that (i) there exists a negative and highly significant relationship between economic policy uncertainty and the provision of trade credit; (ii) this relation is weaker for firms in countries with higher levels of social trust; and (iii) the effects of EPU and social trust are both more substantial for firms in more financially constrained industries. The impact of social trust is not a result of people’s high confidence in government, an effective legal system of enforcing contracts, a high-quality institutional system or an excellent system of protecting shareholders. Our result is robust if we exclude business cycle effects or use an alternative measure of financial constraints.

scholarly journals Effects of Shareholder Groups on the Factoring Institutions Profitability: Evidence from Germany

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sven Koch
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Trade Credit ◽  
Financial Institution ◽  
Growth Potential ◽  
Balance Sheets ◽  
Capital Financing ◽  
Financial Holding ◽  
Administrative Expenses ◽  
Market Consolidation

<p>The significant role of trade credit in financing large companies and small and medium-sized enterprises leads to high stocks of account receivables within the balance sheets of German firms. As a result the importance of working capital financing is growing and the demand for accounts receivables financing (factoring) increases. The German factoring industry is dominated by banks. In addition to bank-owned financial institutions, many non-bank financial institutions are represented on the market. In a context of a continuing market consolidation, it is of interest whether there are differences in terms of profitability depending on shareholder groups (financial institution, non-financial institution, non holding). The German factoring market is an extremely growing market with further growth potential in an ongoing market consolidation. A further market consolidation is probable because the administrative expenses of small financial institutions and institutions without any holding are high. However, subsidiaries of a financial holding or non-financial holding show significantly lower administrative expenses. The results show that the profitability of the financial institutions is significantly influenced by the shareholders and the size of the institution. Financial institutions of a financial holding (bank-owned) are significantly less profitable than institutions without any holding or institutions of a non-financial holding. A similar picture emerges in the achieved margins of factors.</p>

scholarly journals Supply Chain Coordination under Trade Credit and Quantity Discount with Sales Effort Effects

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhihong Wang ◽  
Shaofeng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Analytical Model ◽  
Hybrid Model ◽  
Trade Credit ◽  
Supply Chain Coordination ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Quantity Discount ◽  
Model Combining ◽  
Effort Effect

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of trade credit and quantity discount in supply chain coordination when the sales effort effect on market demand is considered. In this paper, we consider a two-echelon supply chain consisting of a single retailer ordering a single product from a single manufacturer. Market demand is stochastic and is influenced by retailer sales effort. We formulate an analytical model based on a single trade credit and find that the single trade credit cannot achieve the perfect coordination of the supply chain. Then, we develop a hybrid quantitative analytical model for supply chain coordination by coherently integrating incentives of trade credit and quantity discount with sales effort effects. The results demonstrate that, providing that the discount rate satisfies certain conditions, the proposed hybrid model combining trade credit and quantity discount will be able to effectively coordinate the supply chain by motivating retailers to exert their sales effort and increase product order quantity. Furthermore, the hybrid quantitative analytical model can provide great flexibility in coordinating the supply chain to achieve an optimal situation through the adjustment of relevant parameters to resolve conflict of interests from different supply chain members. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the hybrid model.

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