We identify a novel way of evergreening loans where a low-quality bank lends to a related party of an insolvent borrower, and the loan recipient transfers the funds to the insolvent borrower using internal capital markets. Internal capital market transactions, incremental investments, interest...

We ask whether regulatory intervention in the form of prompt corrective action that seeks to bring troubled banks back to health by imposing temporary restrictions and increasing regulatory monitoring reverses borrower runs. Using the Indian PCA regime and exploiting the sharp discontinuity...

We study the impact of a government-mediated takeover of weak small banks by stronger large banks in India during the recent banking crisis on loan performance. Our within borrower-time and between banks tests show a 25% reduction in delinquency. Evidence on mechanisms suggests that borrowers...

In this paper I document the heterogeneous response of investors to fund performance across Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) funds versus conventional funds. I first show that the Morningstar categorization of funds into socially responsible (static classification) versus conventional is...

We ask whether the sensitivity of monetary policy shocks to inflation expectations, growth, and inflation changes as a result of adopting the inflation targeting regime in India. We use state-level variation in inflation and inflation expectations and bank-level variation in their propagation of...

I first show that there is a positive correlation between fund strategy based SRI classification and score based SRI classification. I then document that morningstar sustainability rating had a disciplining effect and fund managers started creating their portfolios more in line with their...

We examine private and confidential minutes of board meetings of a majority of Indian banks, and offer insights into the issues tabled and discussed in bank boards. We find that risk issues account for only 10% of the issues tabled with regulation and compliance accounting for the most (41%)...

Theoretically, it is unclear whether group loans outperform individual loans in terms of delinquency, especially during a crisis. It is difficult to test the hypothesis due to differences in the types of borrowers of the group and individual loans and likely differences in their behavior between...