Trade credit and corporate growth
Trade credit and corporate growth
While the underlying causal linkage between trade credit and corporate growth has mainly been explored, the primary factors that channel the relationship are limited. This article hypothesises a nonlinear relationship between trade credit and corporate growth due to the existing theoretical arguments on the benefit and cost of using suppliers' credit by corporations to enhance growth. Based on a panel of 23,023 non-financial companies from the United Kingdom over a 10-year period, evidence from this study reveals a nonlinear (concave) relation between trade credit and corporate growth: positive for low trade credit received and negative for high credit received. We also find trade credit to be sensitive to financial crisis, financial constraints and growth strategy. The predictability is stronger during a financial crisis, among financially constrained corporations and corporations pursuing an aggressive growth strategy. We also find growth to be higher in firms that move closer to achieving an optimal credit level. This relationship holds for both the above- and below-optimal deviations. These findings have implications for a more balanced and nuanced view of trade credit management.
Employment growth, Trade payables, financial constraint, financial crisis and corporate growth, monetary contraction, trade credit
Tingbani, Ishmael
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Afrifa, Godfred Adjappong
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Tauringana, Venancio
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Ntim, Collins
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19 August 2022
Tingbani, Ishmael
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Afrifa, Godfred Adjappong
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Tauringana, Venancio
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Ntim, Collins
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Tingbani, Ishmael, Afrifa, Godfred Adjappong, Tauringana, Venancio and Ntim, Collins
(2022)
Trade credit and corporate growth.
International Journal of Finance & Economics.
(doi:10.1002/ijfe.2683).
Abstract
While the underlying causal linkage between trade credit and corporate growth has mainly been explored, the primary factors that channel the relationship are limited. This article hypothesises a nonlinear relationship between trade credit and corporate growth due to the existing theoretical arguments on the benefit and cost of using suppliers' credit by corporations to enhance growth. Based on a panel of 23,023 non-financial companies from the United Kingdom over a 10-year period, evidence from this study reveals a nonlinear (concave) relation between trade credit and corporate growth: positive for low trade credit received and negative for high credit received. We also find trade credit to be sensitive to financial crisis, financial constraints and growth strategy. The predictability is stronger during a financial crisis, among financially constrained corporations and corporations pursuing an aggressive growth strategy. We also find growth to be higher in firms that move closer to achieving an optimal credit level. This relationship holds for both the above- and below-optimal deviations. These findings have implications for a more balanced and nuanced view of trade credit management.
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Accepted/In Press date: 14 July 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 8 August 2022
Published date: 19 August 2022
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Employment growth, Trade payables, financial constraint, financial crisis and corporate growth, monetary contraction, trade credit
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