Curbing Shocks to Corporate Liquidity: The Role of Trade Credit

Using data on liquidity shortfalls generated by the fraud and failure of a cash-in-transit firm, we demonstrate effects on firms’ trade credit usage. We find that firms manage liquidity shortages by increasing the amount of credit drawn from suppliers and decreasing the amount issued to customers. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Amberg, Niklas, Jacobson, Tor, von Schedvin, Erik, Townsend, Robert
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/130501

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