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Do Debt Contract Enforcement Costs Affect Financing and Asset Structure?
Gopalan, Radhakrishnan - 2015
Using the staggered introduction of fast-track debt recovery courts in India, we estimate the causal effect of a … reduction in debt contract enforcement costs on financing and asset maturity. A reduction in enforcement costs is associated … with an increase in long-term debt and a decrease in short-term debt and trade-credit. The increase in debt maturity is …
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Financial Liberalisation and Corporate Capital Structure : Evidence from India
Goel, Kavita - 2011
has led to a decline in the relative importance of debt, particularly bank loans, as a form of finance for the Indian …
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Effect of Increased Disclosure on Firm Financing : An Assessment of the Impact of Clause 49 in India
Pal, Sarmistha - 2020
-2014 suggest that increased disclosure after 2000 has led to a greater (lower) reliance on equity (debt) among treated domestic … be politically connected and continue to be opaque with greater reliance on debt, thus challenging the effective …
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Acquisition pricing in India during 1995–2011: Have Indian acquirers really beaten the odds?
Banerjee, Pradip; Banerjee, Prithviraj; De, Soumen; … - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 38 (2014) C, pp. 14-30
We examine the announcement returns of acquisitions made by Indian firms during the period 1995–2011. Our results confirm that the announcement returns to Indian acquirers are on average significantly positive. However, we are first to document that the announcement returns to Indian acquirers...
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Does Geopolitical Risk Matter for Corporate Investments in the Hotel and Restaurant Industry? Evidence From India
Das, Debojyoti; Dharmani, Pranav; Dutta, Anupam; Basu, … - 2023
We examine the relationship between geopolitical risk (GPR) and corporate investments considering 395 Indian hotel and restaurant industry firms from 2003 to 2020. The choice of this industry is motivated by the fact that they require recurrent investments in fixed assets. We find a...
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Opportunities and Challenges of Cryptocurrencies in India - A Study
Irfan, Syed Bilal; M, Malavika - 2023
The rapid development of information and communication technology has brought many activities of our daily lives online, making them more flexible and effective. The significant increase in the number of online users has activated the concept of virtual worlds and created cryptocurrencies, a new...
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Does Divestment Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from the Indian Experience
Ghosh, Saibal - 2009
profitability largely occur during the one to three years just before privatization, the progress in terms of leverage and …
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Intragroup Propping and Corporate Governance Reforms : Evidence from Business Groups in India
Gupta, Pankaj - 2017
This chapter examines the propping evidences using price reaction to the earnings announcement method for group affiliated firms in India. When any listed group firm announces its earnings, market views this firm as prospective to help other affiliate firms of the group. Overall, an increase in...
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Women on Board and Performance of Family Firms : Evidence from India
Sarkar, Jayati - 2017
This paper provides evidence on the effect of women directors on the performance of family firms with a case study of India. Existing literature on the subject has primarily focused on widely held firms, notably in the US. Given that ownership structure and governance environment of family firms...
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Rights Issues and Creeping Acquisitions in India
Jetley, Gaurav - 2015
We analyze the extent to which promoters of firms listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange are using rights issues to circumvent regulatory provisions related to creeping acquisitions. We find that promoters use rights issues that do not have specific objectives for purposes of realizing an increase...
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