{"title":"Big data in tax enforcement and trade credit: Evidence from China","authors":"Gaoya Song , Quan Li","doi":"10.1016/j.ribaf.2025.102812","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how big data in tax enforcement (BDTE) affects trade credit. We demonstrate that BDTE not only significantly enhances the trade credit acquisition of enterprises but also boosts the trade credit supply. The path analyses indicate that BDTE increases firms' financing constraints and inhibits corporate earnings management, therefore improving trade credit acquisition and supply. Furthermore, the reinforcing effect of BDTE on corporate trade credit acquisition is more pronounced among low supplier concentration, low quality enterprises and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The positive relationship between BDTE and trade credit supply is stronger among low supplier concentration, manufacturing enterprises and non-SOEs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51430,"journal":{"name":"Research in International Business and Finance","volume":"76 ","pages":"Article 102812"},"PeriodicalIF":6.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Research in International Business and Finance","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0275531925000686","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This study investigates how big data in tax enforcement (BDTE) affects trade credit. We demonstrate that BDTE not only significantly enhances the trade credit acquisition of enterprises but also boosts the trade credit supply. The path analyses indicate that BDTE increases firms' financing constraints and inhibits corporate earnings management, therefore improving trade credit acquisition and supply. Furthermore, the reinforcing effect of BDTE on corporate trade credit acquisition is more pronounced among low supplier concentration, low quality enterprises and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The positive relationship between BDTE and trade credit supply is stronger among low supplier concentration, manufacturing enterprises and non-SOEs.
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Research in International Business and Finance (RIBAF) seeks to consolidate its position as a premier scholarly vehicle of academic finance. The Journal publishes high quality, insightful, well-written papers that explore current and new issues in international finance. Papers that foster dialogue, innovation, and intellectual risk-taking in financial studies; as well as shed light on the interaction between finance and broader societal concerns are particularly appreciated. The Journal welcomes submissions that seek to expand the boundaries of academic finance and otherwise challenge the discipline. Papers studying finance using a variety of methodologies; as well as interdisciplinary studies will be considered for publication. Papers that examine topical issues using extensive international data sets are welcome. Single-country studies can also be considered for publication provided that they develop novel methodological and theoretical approaches or fall within the Journal''s priority themes. It is especially important that single-country studies communicate to the reader why the particular chosen country is especially relevant to the issue being investigated. [...] The scope of topics that are most interesting to RIBAF readers include the following: -Financial markets and institutions -Financial practices and sustainability -The impact of national culture on finance -The impact of formal and informal institutions on finance -Privatizations, public financing, and nonprofit issues in finance -Interdisciplinary financial studies -Finance and international development -International financial crises and regulation -Financialization studies -International financial integration and architecture -Behavioral aspects in finance -Consumer finance -Methodologies and conceptualization issues related to finance