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The paper discusses the reasons for supporting international trade finance during a liquidity crisis. Targeted interventions are justified when prices are rigid and sellers insist on immediate payment due to fears of strategic default. In this case, buyers who reject the seller's offer fail to internalize the seller's benefit from additional liquidity. A general infusion of credit will not facilitate the beneficial transaction, but an infusion targeted at the buyer's bank's trade finance supply will do so. Since there is a need for interventions in one country to benefit actors in another, international coordination is called for.

Access to Finance --- Asymmetric information --- Bank credit --- Borrower --- Contract enforcement --- Credit market --- Credit policies --- Credit subsidies --- Debt Markets --- Economic Theory and Research --- Emerging Markets --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Financial markets --- Government interventions --- International Bank --- International Economics & Trade --- International Trade --- International transactions --- Law and Development --- Liquidity --- Liquidity Crisis --- Loan --- Moral hazard --- Private Sector Development --- Trade credit --- Trade Finance --- Trade Law --- Transaction

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As world leaders have agreed to massively support trade finance, this paper discusses the singularity of the issues related to trade finance in the context of the global economic crisis. Why should international trade finance be a particular issue of concern in the current circumstances? Are there specific market or government failures associated with trade finance that justify a special and differential treatment of the issue by policymakers? If so, what would then be the most appropriate policy instruments to address those concerns? The paper cautions against the notion of a large trade finance "gap," yet highlights the possible rationales and conditions for an effective intervention in support of trade finance.

Access to Finance --- Bank credit --- Banks and Banking Reform --- Central banks --- Credit lines --- Debt Markets --- Economic Theory and Research --- Emerging Markets --- Emerging markets --- Exporters --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Financial crisis --- Financial Intermediation --- Forms of credit --- Information asymmetries --- International bank --- International markets --- International trade --- Labor Policies --- Lines of credit --- Liquidity --- Liquidity crisis --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Market failure --- Missing markets --- Policy responses --- Political economy --- Private Sector Development --- Social Protections and Labor --- Trade finance --- Working capital