Indirect Evergreening Using Related Parties: Evidence From India

Nishant Kashyap, Sriniwas Mahapatro and Prasanna Tantri

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2023, vol. 58, issue 5, 2131-2161

Abstract: We identify a novel way of evergreening loans in India. 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. Incremental investments, interest rates charged, and loan delinquency rates collectively indicate evergreening. These loans are unlikely to represent arm’s length transactions or rescue of troubled related firms by stronger firms to prevent group-wide spillover effects. Indirect evergreening is less likely to be detected by regulatory audits. It has significant real consequences at the firm and industry levels.

Date: 2023
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