Article history: Received 11 June 2012 Received in revised form 19 December 2013 Accepted 20 December 2013 Available online 28 December 2013 Adjustment costs play a prominent role in explanations of capital structure, but the extent of their economic importance is unknown. A credit line has institutional features important for this analysis, notably its sunk costs of access to the debt market, ...

This paper investigates how the supplier’s bargaining power affects trade credit supply. We use a novel firm-level database of Chinese firms with unique information on the amount, terms, and payment history of trade credit extended to customers and detailed information on product market structure and clients-supplier relationships. We document that suppliers with weak bargaining power towards t...

The statements, findings, conclusions, and recommendations found in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of Advocacy, the United States Small Business Administration, or the United States Government. Executive Summa ry This research examines the implications to the amount of credit available to small businesses from the rapid and pervasive c...

Two thirds of US households hold bank type credit cards, and most of them revolve high-interest card debt. Standard models cannot account for the observed co-existence of such debt with (i) substantial asset accumulation by retirement age, and (ii) substantial holdings of low-rate liquid assets. Hyperbolic discounting can resolve the former but not the second puzzle (Laibson, et al., 2000). Ber...

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This study investigated a network of financial institutions in Korea using the Consumer Credit Panel (KCCP). It is assumed that each consumer borrows from multiple institutions, so those share risks same consumers regardless quality or type loan. We constructed comprising and computed contagion index based on their interconnections weight probability default for individual borrowers. found stro...

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