Do Customer Disclosures Affect Suppliers' Internal Capital Allocation Decisions?

[2608.27598] Do Customer Disclosures Affect Suppliers' Internal Capital Allocation Decisions? Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Economics > General Economics arXiv:2608.27598 (econ) [Submitted on 27 Aug 2026] Title: Do Customer Disclosures Affect Suppliers' Internal Capital Allocation Decisions? Authors: Sangwook Nam View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: This study examines whether customer disclosures affect how supplier firms allocate capital across business segments. Customer disclosures can shape supplier investment decisions through two competing channels. They can improve suppliers' information about downstream demand, helping suppliers align capital with growth opportunities ("information channel"), or erode incumbent suppliers' private information advantage, inducing costly investments to defend customer relationships ("competitive-threat channel"). I use the adoption of SFAS 131 as a customer-level disclosure shock. Suppliers exposed to expanded customer disclosures experience increased product-market competition and reallocate capital toward segments with relatively weak growth-opportunity signals. Suppliers that deviate from allocations predicted by growth signals are more likely to preserve market share and expand their customer base in subsequent years. Using a novel approach to link supplier segments to customer segments, I show that this reallocation is driven by investing in capacity in affected segments, rather than by a correction of prior under-investment. Consistent with the competitive-threat channel, the investment adjustment is stronger for segments linked to larger customers and for segments operating in more concentrated industries. Segments making these investments subsequently experience lower ROA, consistent with suppliers accepting lower profitability to defend customer relationships. Overall, the findings show that disclosures can shape how economically linked firms allocate capital internally. Subjects: General Economics (econ.GN) Cite as: arXiv:2608.27598 [econ.GN] (or arXiv:2608.27598v1 [econ.GN] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.27598 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Sangwook Nam [ view email ] [v1] Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:30:22 UTC (1,210 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: econ.GN < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: econ q-fin q-fin.EC References & Citations SciX Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab)

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