What you sell is what you lend? Explaining trade credit contracts

Review of Financial Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1261-1298

  Giannetti, Mariassunta ^a   Burkart, Mike ^b   Ellingsen, Tore ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79953845540     PISSN: 08939454     EISSN: 14657368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhn096     Document Type: Article

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