Price Dynamics and the Financing Structure of Firms in Emerging Economies

Victoria Nuguer, Andrés González Gómez, Alan Finkelstein-Shapiro and Jessica Roldán-Peña
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Jessica Roldán Peña () and Alan Finkelstein Shapiro

No 9061, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: We use a novel dataset that merges goods-level prices underlying the CPI in Mexico with the balance sheet information of Mexican publicly listed firms and study the connection between firms' financing structure and price dynamics in an emerging economy. First, we find that larger firms (in terms of sales and employees) tend to use more interfirm trade credit relative to bank credit. Second, these firms use interfirm trade credit as a mechanism to smooth variations in their prices. Third, all else equal, firms with a higher trade-to-bank credit ratio tend to lower prices. In turn, the behavior of these firms explains the negative relationship between aggregate trade credit growth and in inflation in the data. A tractable New Keynesian model with search frictions in physical input markets sheds light on firms' structural characteristics as well as the economic mechanisms that rationalize our empirical findings.

JEL-codes: E24 E32 G18 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-06
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DOI: 10.18235/0001270

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