Trade credit and ethnicity: Case of ethnic minority area in China
Go Yano and
Maho Shiraishi
China Economic Review, 2015, vol. 36, issue C, 236-260
Abstract:
Using data for trade credit practices, this work investigates interfirm trust formation by ethnic minority firms in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. The main findings of this research are as follows. First, there is a general ethnic bias against ethnic minority firms in receiving trade credit. Second, ethnic minority firms are less eager than Han firms to build interfirm trust with their business partners by offering trade credit, which is partly due to their financing constraints. Third, ethnic minority firms have less trust of other ethnic minority firms in offering trade credit. Fourth, these trade credit practices by ethnic minority firms tend to be more pronounced in those surviving after 2005. Fifth, ethnic minority firms do not share their members' information regarding productivity within their circle of ethnic minority firms. Overall, interfirm trust is insufficiently formed, even among ethnic minority firms.
Keywords: China; Ethnic bias; Ethnic minority firms; Interfirm trust; Trade credit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G32 O16 O53 P34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2015.09.006
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