Ex ante bargaining and ex post enforcement in trade credit supply: theory and evidence from China
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01/03/2011
01/03/2011
01/02/2011
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Resumo |
If payment of goods is easily default, economic transaction may deeply suffer from the risk. This risky environment formed a mechanism that governs how economic transaction is realized, subsequently how trade credit is given. This paper distinguished ex ante bargaining and ex post enforcement, then modeled that bargaining power reduces trade credit ex ante, and ex post enforcement power and cash in hand of buyer can enhances both trade amount and trade credit in a presence of default risk. We modeled this relationship in order to organize findings from previous literature and from our original micro data on detailed transaction in China to consistently understand the mechanism governing trade credit. Then empirically tested a structure from the theoretical prediction with data. Results show that ex post enforcement power of seller mainly determines size of trade credit and trade amount, cash in hand of buyer can substitute with enforcement power; Bargaining power of seller is exercised to reduces trade credit and trade amount for avoiding default risk, but it simultaneously improves enforcement power as well. We found that ex post enforcement power consists of (ex ante) bargaining power on between two parties and intervention from the third party. However, its magnitude is far smaller than the direct impact to reduce trade credit and trade amount. Revised version was distributed in May, 2013. |
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IDE Discussion Paper. No. 279. 2011. 2 http://hdl.handle.net/2344/947 279 |
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en eng |
Publicador |
Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO 日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所 |
Palavras-Chave | #China #Corporate accounting #Industrial management #Trade credit #Enforcement power #Bargaining power #Cash constraint #Competition in product market #336.820222 #AECC China 中国 #E41 - Demand for Money #G2 - Financial Institutions and Services #K0 - General #M41 - Accounting #O5 - Economywide Country Studies #O53 - Asia including Middle East #P31 - Socialist Enterprises and Their Transitions |
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Working Paper Technical Report |