Ellingsen, Tore; Jacobson, Tor; Schedvin, Erik von - 2016
We study 52 million trade credit contracts, issued by 51 suppliers over 9 years to about 199,000 unique customers. The … analysis contradicts the conventional view that trade credit is an inferior source of funding. Specifically, while we replicate … rather than smaller trade credit usage. In fact, customers' financial conditions are unrelated to agreed contract duration …
