Trade credit versus bank credit a simultaneous analysis in European SMEs

Trade credit and bank credit constitute two of the most important external sources of finance for small firms. The purpose of this paper, first and foremost, is to explore the complementary or substitutive relationship between trade credit and bank credit by considering the joint determination of bo...

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Published inSmall business economics Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 1079 - 1096
Main Authors Palacín-Sánchez, María-José, Canto-Cuevas, Francisco-Javier, di-Pietro, Filippo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer Science + Business Media 01.12.2019
Springer US
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Business and Management
Commercial credit
Credit
Economic models
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Government securities
Industrial Organization
Legal system
Management
Microeconomics
Small & medium sized enterprises-SME
Small business
Europe
Trade credit
Bank credit
L26
Legal system
Financial development
G21
G32
K4
SMEs
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Summary:Trade credit and bank credit constitute two of the most important external sources of finance for small firms. The purpose of this paper, first and foremost, is to explore the complementary or substitutive relationship between trade credit and bank credit by considering the joint determination of both resources on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and second, it analyses how the country institutional factors affect these two resources. Specifically, we introduce the efficiency of the legal system and the development of the financial sector. For the empirical analysis, we use a simultaneous equations model across a sample of 60,377 SMEs operating in 12 European Union countries over the period 2008–2014. The results suggest that two resources, trade credit and short-term bank credit, are simultaneously determined and negatively related in SMEs. The results also suggest that trade credit and bank credit depend on country institutional factors.
ISSN:0921-898X
1573-0913
DOI:10.1007/s11187-018-0101-x