本文采用2003—2011年中国制造业上市公司数据,研究商业信用对投资.现金流敏感性的影响,考察商业信用对企业投资行为的作用。结果发现:我国上市公司的投资对现金流高度敏感,存在明显的融资约束现象;商业信用显著缓解了企业的融资约束;国有上市公司受到的融资约束比民营上市公司小,但是随着商业信用规模的扩大,民营上市公司的融资约束有明显的缓解。
With data of Chinese listed manufacturing companies between 2003 and 2011 , this paper tests the effect of trade credit on investment-cash flow sensitivity to investigate the influence of trade credit on corporate investment. The findings are: the investment of Chinese listed companies is highly sensitive to cash flow, so there exists an obvious phenomenon of fi- nancing constraints; trade credit has considerably eased off the financing constraints for enterprises ; non-state owned enterpri- ses are faced with bigger financing constraints than state owned enterprises, but as it expands in scope, trade credit has signifi- cantly eased off the financing constraints for non-state owned enterprises, whereas for state owned enterprises, the easement is not as obvious.