Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Why the general model of working capital management? The U$1 billion question -- Chapter 3: The General dynamic model of trade credit -- Chapter 4: Market power and working capital optimization -- Chapter 5: The archetypes: from mature, single-product...

This paper makes some selective comparisons of the empirical evidence relating to financial discipline and soft budget constraints in the enterprise sector in China and the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (CEEFSU). The paper finds that: (1) in both...

Buyers and suppliers have diverging interests about trade-credit maturities: buyers desire long payment periods as a source of cheap funding, while suppliers prefer swift payments to avoid locking up scarce liquidity in idle assets. A fast-growing financial product innovation - supply-chain...