Does Trade Credit Provides Favorable Information to Banks?
) (Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University) Abstract This article examines whether trade credit provides credible information about borrowerfs creditworthiness, thereby facilitating provision of bank credit. Using data on Japanese manufacturing firms over the period 1990-1995, our empirical analyses reveal that trade payables as a credible signal about borrowerfs creditworthiness facilitate the provision of short-term credit by less-informed banks. Consequently, in the firms that have armfs-length relations with banks, trade payables play an important role in mitigating asymmetric information problems between firms and banks, thereby facilitating extension of bank credit. Download InfoTo download: If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEA
