Testing the impact of liquidation speed on leverage using Indian data

Biswajit Banerjee () and Risto Herrala
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Biswajit Banerjee: Ashoka University
Risto Herrala: The Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies

No 113, Working Papers from Ashoka University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The paper investigates the influence of the speed of liquidation of insolvent firms on leverage. The theoretical model presented formalizes the intuitive view that an increase in liquidation speed is expected to decrease average leverage as highly leveraged firms exit. Analysis of Indian data, however, suggests that an increase in liquidation speed increases average leverage. This finding is linked to influential observations at the right tail of the leverage distribution. We propose an asset-weighted variant of the proposition that holds with empirical data.

Keywords: Indian; economy; Insolvency; and; bankruptcy; code; Leverage; Liquidation; speed (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23
Date: 2024-04-30
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