This study explores the role of trade credit using a unique sample of long-term supply contracts collected from SEC filings. The contracts provide rich detail of the variation in the types and amounts of credit, as well as buyer and supplier characteristics and other product market variables. I...

This Selected Issues paper focuses on constructing a high-frequency economic growth indicator for Suriname. Most economic data for Suriname are available only with a substantial time lag and on a low-frequency basis, impeding such analyses. This paper presents a simple econometric model that...