Formal Finance and Trade Credit during China's Transition

Using a large panel dataset of Chinese industrial firms, we find that poorly performing SOEs were more likely to redistribute credit to firms with less privileged access to loans via trade credit. While that could be consistent with the efficient redistribution of credit, it is more likely that thes...

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Main Authors: Cull, Robert, Xu, Lixin Colin, Zhu, Tian
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5560