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Trade credit versus bank credit: a simultaneous analysis in European SMEs

verfasst von: María-José Palacín-Sánchez, Francisco-Javier Canto-Cuevas, Filippo di-Pietro

Erschienen in: Small Business Economics | Ausgabe 4/2019

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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.

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As in other empirical studies, Luxemburg, Malta and Cyprus are excluded due to their particular characteristics and residual relevance.

The countries are sorted alphabetically by their EU identifier in the text and in the tables.

Both variables are obtained from the World Bank.

“Appendix Table 11” provides results using various econometric techniques: ordinary least squares (OLS), fixed effects (FE) and three-stage least squares (3SLS). The coefficients are in line with those estimated by GMM.

These results are not included in the article but can be provided by the authors upon request.

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Titel: Trade credit versus bank credit: a simultaneous analysis in European SMEs
verfasst von: María-José Palacín-Sánchez
Francisco-Javier Canto-Cuevas
Filippo di-Pietro
Publikationsdatum: 10.09.2018
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Small Business Economics / Ausgabe 4/2019
Print ISSN: 0921-898X
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0913
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-018-0101-x

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