Curbing Shocks to Corporate Liquidity: The Role of Trade Credit

Discussions with and suggestions from Vicente Cuñat and Tore Ellingsen, as well as seminar and conference participants at Sveriges Riksbank, Lund University, and the 2015 Norges Bank Conference on Banking and Financial Intermediation have been very helpful in improving upon earlier drafts. We are also grateful for the generous data support provided by Upplysningscentralen AB. Special thanks to Lars-Henric Andersson at Lindahl law firm in Stockholm, appointed trustee of the Panaxia bankruptcy estate, for sharing his deep insights about this complex event. Amberg gratefully acknowledges research support from Jan Wallanders och Tom Hedelius Stiftelse. Townsend gratefully acknowledges research support from Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD and Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL). We assume full responsibility for any and all errors in the paper. The views expressed in this paper are solely the responsibility of the authors and should not be interpreted as reflecting the views of the Executive Board of Sveriges Riksbank or the National Bureau of Economic Research.