This paper finds that firms' trade credit, the financing provided by upstream input suppliers along the supply chain, plays an important role in determining firms' exportation. In a panel data set of manufacturing firms in 25 Eastern European and Central Asian countries between 2001 and 2007, we...

We analyse the impact of trade credit on international trade in Nigeria. Specifically, we quantify the impact of micro trade credit, measured by account receivables, bank credit and account payables on firms’ export and imports. Throughthe theoretical lens of the partial equilibrium theory, we...