This paper studies the impact of overcapacity on trade credit decisionmaking.
The results show that with the increase of overcapacity in the industry,
enterprises will provide more trade credit to downstream customers to meet
their competitive needs, and will increase the scale of trade credit obtained from
supplier to transfer liquidity and financing needs to upstream. On the whole,
the increase of overcapacity will lead to more outflow of trade credit funds from
enterprises. The conclusions provide evidence at the micro-enterprise level for
the economic consequences of overcapacity, and have some implications for the
governance of overcapacity.