“…The literature provides explanations for uptake or offer of trade credit based on informational asymmetries (Smith, 1987, and Biais and Gollier, 1997), discrimination arguments (Brennan, Maksimovic and Zechner, 1988), monitoring advantages (Jain, 2000 andMateut, Bougheas and, insurance (Cunat, 2007), product quality (Lee and Stove, 1993 and Long, Malitz and Ravid, 1994) bankruptcy (Frank andMaksimovic, 2004 andWilner, 2000) opportunistic behavior (Burkart and Ellingsen, 2004) and externalities (Daripa and Nilsen, 2005). Empirical studies explore the relationships between accounts payable and accounts receivable and other balance sheet variables to corroborate or refute these theories and examine in detail the terms and conditions of trade credit.…”