We argue that political connections help financially constrained firms access external financing and consequently reduce their incentives to use tax planning as a source of internal financing. Consistent with this argument, we find that after a plausibly exogenous increase in political...

How do firms’ credit constraint affect their export mode choices between direct exporting and indirect exporting through intermediaries? This study explores this issue in a heterogeneous firm model where firms differ not only in productivity but also in credit levels. Our model predicts that...

The China’ economy has been structurally deleveraging recent years. By constructing a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with state-owned enterprises and private enterprises, this article explores the impacts of different types of firms deleveraging on China’s macroeconomic...

We demonstrate that the "predator-prey" metaphor may be well-suited to describe trade finance mechanisms in emerging economies. Having analyzed the dynamics of trade credit in the Polish corporate sector over the period between 1997 and 2014, we found that suppliers of trade credit were smaller,...