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Trade Credit, Bank Credit, and Flight to Quality: Evidence from French SMEs

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  • Maria Psillaki
  • Konstantinos Eleftheriou

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This paper investigates the impact of the global financial crisis on the allocation of credit to small and medium‐sized enterprises (s). Using samples of rench s from four industries, we found support for the prediction of the flight‐to‐quality hypothesis that in bad times, credit flows away from smaller constrained firms to larger, higher grade firms. We also examined the relation between bank credit and trade credit in terms of two hypotheses: the substitution hypothesis and the complementary hypothesis. The results of fixed effects panel regressions showed that trade credit for small firms during periods of tight money acts generally as complement rather than substitute to bank credit, thus providing empirical support for the redistribution view of trade credit.

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  • Maria Psillaki & Konstantinos Eleftheriou, 2015. "Trade Credit, Bank Credit, and Flight to Quality: Evidence from French SMEs," Journal of Small Business Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(4), pages 1219-1240, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ujbmxx:v:53:y:2015:i:4:p:1219-1240
    DOI: 10.1111/jsbm.12106
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    Cited by:

    1. Maria Cristina Arcuri & Raoul Pisani, 2024. "Access to external credit during COVID-19: evidence from green SMEs in Italy," Review of Managerial Science, Springer, vol. 18(7), pages 1-30, July.
    2. Zhang, Cheng & Lee, Yun-Chi & Ho, Kung-Cheng & Shen, Xixi, 2023. "Influence of institutional differences on trade credit use during pandemics," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 77(C).
    3. Marie Finnegan & Supriya Kapoor, 2023. "ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 61(3), pages 1253-1288, October.

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