This paper will document financial aspects of transactions, and trade credit supply behavior with FDI among small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs) based on two original surveys, conducted in four cities in China in 2003. The survey was designed to capture the nature of inter-firm transactions,...

It is widely recognized that trade credit is an important financial mechanism, particularly in developing economies and transition economies where institutions are weak. This paper documents theoretical analysis and empirical accounts on what facilitates an effective supply of trade credit based...

This paper studied the governance mechanism of the economic transaction with trade credit: First, we build a theoretical model that bargaining power reduces trade credit ex ante, and expand ex post enforcement power. The ex post enforcement power and cash in the buyer's hand expand the trade...