This paper examines if trade credit could be considered as a substitute and/or a complement to bank credit in order to assess the existence of credit rationing. Using a panel dataset of 468 and 7019 Portuguese and Spanish small medium size enterprises, in the period 1998-2006, and controlling for endogeneity problems by using GMM estimators, the results confirm the existence of credit rationing, since the substitution hypothesis is confirmed. This effect is particularly strong for firms that maintaining an exclusive relationship with one bank, which indicate a greater severity of adverse selection problems for those firms. Although the substitution hypothesis is confirmed, the results seem indicate that the substitution and complemen...
Small and medium-sized companies are extremely important for the Spanish economy. However, they face...
The paper proposes a model of collateralized bank and trade credit. Firms use a two-input technology...
It is typically less profitable for an opportunistic borrower to divert inputs than to divert cash. ...
According previous studies, a bank can set up a higher interest rate for small company by establishi...
;This article investigates the determinant factors of supply and demand for trade credit by micro, s...
This research provides empirical evidence on the use of trade credit as either a substitution or a c...
This study examines the trade credit of Portuguese firms as a means of financing their customers, us...
Despite the relevance of trade credit as a source of business financing, the topic is far from being...
Las fuentes de financiamiento de corto plazo de las empresas, como son el crédito comercial y el cré...
This investigation access if an inventory management motivation could explain the use trade credit, ...
The sources of short-term financing of companies, such as trade credit and bank credit relationships...
Despite the relevance of trade credit as a source of business financing, the topic is far from being...
Small and medium-sized companies are extremely important for the Spanish economy. However, they face...
Trade credit is an important way of firm financing. Its habitual practice and the excessive enlargem...
Financing through suppliers is a subject that has been little studied in the economic literature in ...
Small and medium-sized companies are extremely important for the Spanish economy. However, they face...
The paper proposes a model of collateralized bank and trade credit. Firms use a two-input technology...
It is typically less profitable for an opportunistic borrower to divert inputs than to divert cash. ...
According previous studies, a bank can set up a higher interest rate for small company by establishi...
;This article investigates the determinant factors of supply and demand for trade credit by micro, s...
This research provides empirical evidence on the use of trade credit as either a substitution or a c...
This study examines the trade credit of Portuguese firms as a means of financing their customers, us...
Despite the relevance of trade credit as a source of business financing, the topic is far from being...
Las fuentes de financiamiento de corto plazo de las empresas, como son el crédito comercial y el cré...
This investigation access if an inventory management motivation could explain the use trade credit, ...
The sources of short-term financing of companies, such as trade credit and bank credit relationships...
Despite the relevance of trade credit as a source of business financing, the topic is far from being...
Small and medium-sized companies are extremely important for the Spanish economy. However, they face...
Trade credit is an important way of firm financing. Its habitual practice and the excessive enlargem...
Financing through suppliers is a subject that has been little studied in the economic literature in ...
Small and medium-sized companies are extremely important for the Spanish economy. However, they face...
The paper proposes a model of collateralized bank and trade credit. Firms use a two-input technology...
It is typically less profitable for an opportunistic borrower to divert inputs than to divert cash. ...