Does Trade Credit Substitute Bank Credit? : Evidence From Firm-Level Data /
The paper examines micro data on Italian manufacturing firms' inventory behavior to test the Meltzer (1960) hypothesis according to which firms substitute trade credit for bank credit during periods of monetary tightening. It finds that their inventory investment is constrained by the availabil...
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| Format: | Revue |
| Langue: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2003.
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| Collection: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2003/166 |
| Accès en ligne: | Full text available on IMF |