This paper investigates how credit information sharing affects corporate trade credit. Utilizing the difference-in-difference method, we find that infra-marginal bank borrowers significantly reduce their trade credit after the introduction of the Chinese National Enterprise Credit Information...

More than 25% of credit bonds in China received improved issuance ratings, among which 96.6% used credit enhancement. We find that credit enhancement can effectively lower credit spreads, which still holds after a battery of robustness tests. We employ the propensity score matching method, the...