Korean Abstract: 신용등급은 기업의 미래 현금흐름과 위험을 예측하는 정보를 제공하고 기업의 내재가치를 반영하여 금융거래 시 비대칭정보인 차입기업의 위험유형을 선별하고 통제하는 기능을 수행한다. 본 연구는...

Using a large dataset of Korean public and private firms, we show that public listing does not influence the supply of trade credit among firms affiliated with a large business group (chaebol). Meanwhile, non-affiliated public firms provide more trade credit to customers than their private...

This paper examines how trade credit demand and supply are determined in Korea, where large business groups are dominant in most of the segments and hierarchies of many industries. In particular, we investigate the effects of business group affiliation on trade credit financing, finding that a...

We examine the effect of a large dividend tax cut on corporate investment efficiency by exploiting the 2003 personal taxation reform in the U.S. as a quasi-natural experiment. Using a difference-in-differences approach based on the probability that a firm's marginal investor was an individual...