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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Tác giả chính: De Blasio, Guido
Định dạng: Tạp chí
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Loạt:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/166
Truy cập trực tuyến:Full text available on IMF