The paper analyses the motives behind trade use credit in the Polish enterprise sector, based on the results of the 2016 NBP Annual Survey. It verifies the conclusions stemming from trade credit theories regarding both the main motives driving supply and demand for trade credit, as well as...

Since 1988, cash holding of UK listed companies increased from 10.6 to 16.4%. Focusing on the short-term view of cash holding and its substitutes, trade credit and short-term bank finance, the study develops a panel vector autoregression that accounts for firm-specific liquidity needs based on...

This paper examines how a borrower's growth affects trade credit decisions. An analysis of publicly traded firm data from nine developed economies indicates that trade credit increases with growth. In some cases, this increase is driven by conditions related to liquidity. Exploring the...

This paper investigates the impact of business strategy on firms' trade credit policies. We find that firms following an innovation-oriented strategy (prospectors) offer significantly more trade credit to their customers than those following an efficiency-oriented strategy (defenders),...

In most countries, suppliers of intermediate goods and services are also the main providers of short-term financing to firms. This paper studies the macroeconomic implications of these financial links. In our model, trade credit is the outcome of a long-term contract between firms linked in the...

This study addresses the relationship between product innovation and the demand and supply of trade credit. Theoretical as well as empirical studies are used to derive the hypothesis of a positive link between product innovation and trade credit demand and supply. Using a sample covering SMEs...