In-kind financing during a pandemic: Trade credit and COVID-19

Jagriti Srivastava (jagritis12fpm@iimk.ac.in) and Balagopal Gopalakrishnan (balagopal@iimk.ac.in)
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Jagriti Srivastava: Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
Balagopal Gopalakrishnan: Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

No 473, Working papers from Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

Abstract: Using a cross-country quarterly firm-level dataset, we empirically examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the trade credit channel of firms. In contrast to the impact on trade credit documented during earlier crisis episodes, we find that firms with poor credit quality obtain lower amounts of trade credit from their supplier firms during the quarters following the COVID-19 outbreak. The findings suggest that less creditworthy firms are credit rationed by their suppliers during a product market crisis, in contrast to the credit substitution documented between formal financial institutions and suppliers during a credit market crisis. Furthermore, we document that firms with better growth prospects and firms with better stakeholder relationships are able to obtain trade credit in the post-pandemic period, despite their poor creditworthiness. Our empirical analysis supports the view that supplier financing is conditional on the product market conditions and is not always a generous substitute for bank credit.

Keywords: Trade credit; COVID-19; Financial constraints; Credit default; ESG JEL classification: G21; G28; G32; H12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2021-08
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