In today’s highly changing external environment, such as global interest rates and exchange rates, and the changing relationship between the two parties in international trade, the international trade supply chain is gradually mature and stable. Mor...
In today’s highly changing external environment, such as global interest rates and exchange rates, and the changing relationship between the two parties in international trade, the international trade supply chain is gradually mature and stable. Moreover, supply chain finance (SCF) has shown a breakthrough in the develop- ment of product concept and operation mode innovations in the international market with the continuous improvement of Internet technology. The top 50 global banks have all started SCF business. Meanwhile, Euro -pean and American countries are developing fast, whereas China is still in its infancy in which a certain gap currently exists. However, China obtains a critical position global supply chain, especially the manufactur- ing industry occupying a large proportion. Facing huge demand, many of China’s multinational manufacturing industries have been in a weak position in financing and are facing pressure on capital turnover. With the tightening of liquidity caused by the deleveraging of supervision, the generalized SCF will build a stable liquidity tool for core enterprises, primary and secondary suppliers, and more upstream and downstream small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Moreover, it will help build a better environment of the industrial chain and thus promote the reform of the financial ecology of the supply chain. Using data of the manufacturing enterprises listed on China’s SMEs Board from 2013 to 2019, this study uses the cash–cash flow sensitivity mo- del to empirically test the financing constraints of SMEs and the role of SCF in alleviating these constraints. From the internal individual characteristics of enterprises and external financial environment, this study intro -duces enterprise information transparency, external financing cost, and financial development level as moder -ating variables for further investigation. Moreover, this study examines the difference in finan -cing constraints of different types of enterprises and the varying alleviating effects of SCF on their finan -cing constraints, and carries out a robustness test on the empirical results.
Through empirical analysis, this paper draws the following conclusions: Information transparency and finan- cial development level negatively regulate the mitigating effect of SCF on enterprise financing cons -traints. In contrast, external financing costs positively regulate the mitigating effect of SCF on enterprise financing constraints.