What You Sell Is What You Lend? Explaining Trade Credit Contracts
研究商业信用与产品特征及银企关系的关系，发现差异化产品供应商应收账款更多，购买更多服务的企业获得更便宜、更长期的商业信用，且多数企业获得低成本的商业信用。
We relate trade credit to product characteristics and aspects of bank--firm relationships and document three main empirical regularities. First, the use of trade credit is associated with the nature of the transacted good. In particular, suppliers of differentiated products and services have larger accounts receivable than suppliers of standardized goods and firms buying more services receive cheaper trade credit for longer periods. Second, firms receiving trade credit secure financing from relatively uninformed banks. Third, a majority of the firms in our sample appear to receive trade credit at low cost. Additionally, firms that are more creditworthy and have some buyer market power receive larger early payment discounts. The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org., Oxford University Press.