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Journal of Economic Theory and Econometrics
JETEM/계량경제학보/計量經濟學報/JKES
Journal of the Korean Econometric Society

Credit Rationing and Signalling Effects of Trade Credit: Theory and Evidence from Korean Firms

Vol.25, No.4, December , 22–57



  •   (Department of Economics, Ewha Womans University)

  •   (Department of Economics, Johns Hopkins University)

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Abstract  

We examine interaction among bank credit, trade credit and internal wealth. Our theoretical model derives borrowers' optimal patterns of credit uses depending on internal wealth levels, subject to credit rationing. In particular, the model incorporates signalling effects of and nonlinear interest schedules for trade credit to account for stylized facts from Korean data that are at odds with previous models. Our empirical results are broadly consistent with presence of signalling effects as well as theoretically predicted interaction patterns. The results could be interpreted as a rough estimate of the extent of credit rationing among sample firms.


Keywords
   trade credit, credit rationing, signalling, simultaneous equations, endogenous threshold

JEL classification codes
   G32, G21, G14
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