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- Title
Vintage capital and trade credit.
- Authors
Khoo, Joye; Cheung, Adrian
- Abstract
This paper examines whether and how capital age influences trade credit extended by suppliers. We find that firms with older capital are associated with a reduction in trade credit offered by suppliers, which is consistent with the view that vintage capital, with outdated technology, is detrimental to firms. Employee outside opportunity, labour mobility and organisational capital are important factors that moderate the association between capital age on trade credit. Our findings are not driven by specific industry sectors or periods and remain robust to alternative measures of trade credit and to endogeneity concerns. In addition, we show evidence that shareholders view vintage capital as value‐destructive. In sum, this study reveals that risk exposure associated with capital age matters for corporate trade credit decisions.
- Subjects
CREDIT; CREDIT insurance; RISK exposure; SUPPLIERS
- Publication
Accounting & Finance, 2024, Vol 64, Issue 1, p507
- ISSN
0810-5391
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/acfi.13153