Trade Credit and the Effect of Macro-Financial Shocks Evidence From U.S. Panel Data

Many studies examine why firms are financed by their suppliers, but few empirical studies look at the macroeconomic implications of such financial arrangements. Using disaggregated panel data, we examine how firms extend and use trade credit. We find that, controlling for the transactions or asset m...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kim, Yungsan
Other Authors: Choi, Woon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2003
Series:IMF Working Papers
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02856nmm a2200673 u 4500
001 EB000928142
003 EBX01000000000000000721738
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 150128 ||| eng
020 |a 9781451855005 
100 1 |a Kim, Yungsan 
245 0 0 |a Trade Credit and the Effect of Macro-Financial Shocks  |b Evidence From U.S. Panel Data  |c Yungsan Kim, Woon Choi 
260 |a Washington, D.C.  |b International Monetary Fund  |c 2003 
300 |a 34 pages 
651 4 |a United States 
653 |a Finance, Public 
653 |a Credit 
653 |a Finance 
653 |a Public finance & taxation 
653 |a Monetary tightening 
653 |a Government asset management 
653 |a Governmental Property 
653 |a Exports and Imports 
653 |a Spatio-temporal Models 
653 |a International Lending and Debt Problems 
653 |a External debt 
653 |a Money 
653 |a Labor 
653 |a International Financial Markets 
653 |a Asset-liability management 
653 |a Bank credit 
653 |a Public financial management (PFM) 
653 |a Financial Risk Management 
653 |a Income economics 
653 |a Labour 
653 |a Monetary economics 
653 |a Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General 
653 |a Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General 
653 |a Asset and liability management 
653 |a International economics 
653 |a Debts, External 
653 |a Asset management 
653 |a Panel Data Models 
653 |a Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy 
653 |a Monetary policy 
653 |a Wages 
653 |a Monetary Policy 
653 |a Public Finance 
653 |a Money and Monetary Policy 
653 |a Trade credits 
700 1 |a Choi, Woon 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b IMF  |a International Monetary Fund 
490 0 |a IMF Working Papers 
028 5 0 |a 10.5089/9781451855005.001 
856 4 0 |u https://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2003/127/001.2003.issue-127-en.xml?cid=16563-com-dsp-marc  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 330 
520 |a Many studies examine why firms are financed by their suppliers, but few empirical studies look at the macroeconomic implications of such financial arrangements. Using disaggregated panel data, we examine how firms extend and use trade credit. We find that, controlling for the transactions or asset management motive, both accounts payable and receivable increase with tighter policy, implying that trade credit helps firms absorb the effect of a credit contraction. A comparison of S&P 500 firms with smaller firms, however, provides no evidence that when policy is tightened, large firms play the role of credit suppliers more actively than small firms