Financial Contracting and Organizational Form: Evidence from the Regulation of Trade Credit
金融契约与组织形式:来自贸易信贷监管的证据
ABSTRACT We present evidence that restrictions to the set of feasible financial contracts affect buyer‐supplier relationships and the organizational form of the firm. We exploit a regulation that restricted the maturity of the trade credit contracts that a large retailer could sign with some of its small suppliers. Using a within‐product difference‐in‐differences identification strategy, we find that the restriction reduces the likelihood of trade by 11%. The retailer also…