Science Research Management ›› 2018, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (5): 94-102.

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Corporate social responsibility, monetary policy and trade credit financing

Zhang Zhengyong1, Deng Bofu2   

  1. 1. Accounting School, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, China; 
    2. Accounting School, Southwest University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 611130, Sichuan, China
  • Received:2015-05-21 Revised:2017-05-16 Online:2018-05-20 Published:2018-05-21

Abstract: Abstract: This paper investigates the impacts of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) on trade credit financing using domestic listed firms from 2004 to 2013 from the view of the monetary policy changes through Tobit regression approach. Our results indicate that compared with firms with low quality of the CSR, firms with high quality of the CSR are more likely to obtain more trade credit. Especially during monetary contracting periods when firm obtains less trade credit financing, high quality CSR help firms to obtain more trade credit financing, and these results hold after we control the endogeneity. This paper extends the literature about the research of interaction relationship between macroeconomic and micro enterprise behavior, and also enriches the trade credit as a substitute for intuitional finance.

Key words: corporate social responsibility, monetary policy, trade credit financing