Corporate Resilience to Banking Crises: The Roles of Trust and Trade Credit

60 Pages Posted: 11 Apr 2016 Last revised: 14 Jul 2023

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Ross Levine

Stanford University; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Chen Lin

The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics

Wensi Xie

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - CUHK Business School

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Date Written: April 2016

Abstract

Are firms more resilient to systemic banking crises in economies with higher levels of social trust? Using firm-level data in 34 countries from 1990 through 2011, we find that liquidity-dependent firms in high-trust countries obtain more trade credit and suffer smaller drops in profits and employment during banking crises than similar firms in low-trust economies. The results are consistent with the view that when banking crises block the normal banking-lending channel, greater social trust facilitates access to informal finance, cushioning the effects of these crises on corporate profits and employment.

Suggested Citation

Levine, Ross and Lin, Chen and Xie, Wensi, Corporate Resilience to Banking Crises: The Roles of Trust and Trade Credit (April 2016). NBER Working Paper No. w22153, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2762061

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Chen Lin

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Wensi Xie

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - CUHK Business School ( email )

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