Financial development, bank discrimination and trade credit
Financial development, bank discrimination and trade credit
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金融发展、银行歧视和贸易信贷
DOI:
10.1016/j.jbankfin.2006.07.009
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发表时间:
2007-02-01
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Qiu, Jiaping
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作者:
Ge, Ying;Qiu, Jiaping
Non-state owned firms in China grow tremendously with limited support from banks. This provides a unique setting to test how firms in a country with poorly developed financial institutions fund their prosperous growth opportunities. This paper compares the use of an important non-formal financial channel, trade credit, between state and non-state owned firms in China. We find that, compared to state owned firms, non-state owned firms use more trade credit. We further show that this higher usage is primarily for financing rather than transactional purposes. The results suggest that, in a country with a poorly developed formal financial sector, firms can support their growth through non-formal financial channels that largely rely on implicit contractual relation. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.