If this account holds – that is, if bank loans and trade credit are complements – small businesses would receive more trade credit with the improved availability of bank loans following the establishment of the ECG program.
In addition to trade credit received, the availability of bank loans has positive effects on trade receivables, which is a proxy for the provision of credit to customers.
As Meltzer (1960) and Petersen and Rajan (1997) argue, firms with better access to bank loans redistribute credit to credit-constrained firms via trade credit.