Using information on about 10 million inter-firm transactions, we provide evidence that suppliers offer cheap trade credit to ease competition in downstream markets. We show theoretically that suppliers that have to transfer surplus to high-bargaining-power customers would want to offer an...

The point of this paper is to interpret the performance of Kerry Logistic under logistics industries in United Kingdom (UK) all through five years. The investigation is utilize on the example of Kerry Logistic in UK over the period in the region of 2013 and 2017. The data is gotten from yearly...

In this paper, using news reflected in the stock market as a benchmark for the public information of suppliers, we find significant incremental information revelation in the credit default swap market of the customers. The information revelation is more significant during the periods when either...

We study how production networks adapt when natural disasters affect the reliability of a firm in the network. Affected firms extend more trade credit to their customers, especially if these customers are important and would be difficult to replace. The suppliers of affected firms appear to...

We document the propagation effects through supply chains of the most damaging cyberattack in history and the important role of banks in mitigating its impact. Customers of directly hit firms saw reductions in revenues, profitability, and trade credit relative to similar firms. The losses...

Using textual analysis of earnings conference calls, we quantify firm level risk arising from the reliability of the supply chain from 2002 to 2020. Our proxy for perceived supply chain risk exhibits cross-sectional and time-series variation that aligns with reasonable priors and is...

This study examines the effects of global supply chain pressures on firm leverage ratios. I find that firms have historically responded to global supply pressures by reducing their total debt ratios. However, during the extreme pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, firms sharply increased...

We develop a model of the joint capital structure decisions of banks and their borrowers. Strikingly high bank leverage emerges naturally from the interplay between two sets of forces. First, seniority and diversification reduce bank asset volatility by an order of magnitude relative to that of...

We optimize a large country's currency supply network for its central bank. The central bank provides currency to all branches (who in turn serve consumers and commerce) through its network of big vaults, regional vaults, and retail vaults. The central bank intends to reduce its total...