Do companies’ green credentials enhance trade credit provisions? Global evidence

Rashid Zaman, Nader Atawnah, Deepa Banigidadmath, Muhammad Nadeem and Jia Liu

Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 2025, vol. 103, issue C

Abstract: We investigate the impact of corporate renewable energy (RE) adoption on suppliers’ trade credit provisions. Using a global sample of 30 countries, we establish that firms engaging in higher RE consumption secure increased trade credit. Our results remain robust to a variety of sensitivity tests and after accounting for potential endogeneity concerns using the Paris Agreement and companies switching to green energy as exogenous shocks. Our channel analysis reveals that RE take-up mitigates companies’ environmental risk (proxied by environmental violation fines, media coverage of environmental controversies, GHG emissions, and environmental policy stringency). Additional tests reveal that the relationship between RE and trade credit is stronger for adopters with lower bargaining power and those in environmentally sensitive industries. Cross-sectional analysis reveals that the documented positive impact is stronger in developed economies and during periods of high policy uncertainty. Finally, we discover that RE adoption enhances firm value and promotes a supply-chain spillover, since adopters are also more likely to extend trade credit to their own customers. Our paper provides original evidence that RE adapting improves companies’ access to informal financing in the form of higher trade credit.

Keywords: Renewable energy consumption; Trade credit financing; Environmental performance; Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; Climate and environmental risk; Climate policy (Paris Agreement); Supply-chain finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G3 G32 Q2 Q54 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.intfin.2025.102204

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