Corporate Bankruptcy, Soft Budget Constraints, and Business Group Affiliation: Evidence from Indian Firms

Surenderrao Komera () and Jijo Lukose P. J. ()
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Jijo Lukose P. J.: Indian Institute of Management Trichy, Tiruchirapalli – 620 015, Tamilnadu, India
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Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP), 2014, vol. 17, issue 03, 1-28

Abstract: We examine theex-anteperformance of 1185 firms that filed for bankruptcy between 1992 and 2009. Evidence suggests that firm specific poor operating performance and industry wide distress are the principal causes (contributing 42% each for cash flow shortfall) of corporate distress. We observe vitiating investment, operating, and financing performance of the sample firms starting from four years prior to their bankruptcy. Further, we report less severe decline in capital expenditure in the case of state controlled firms and business group affiliated firms, indicating the presence of "soft budget constraints" among the sample firms. Logistic regression, estimating firm level distress probabilities offer indirect evidence for "risk sharing argument" among business group affiliates.

Keywords: Corporate distress; soft budget constraints; business groups; JEL Classifications: G32; JEL Classifications: G33; JEL Classifications: G34; JEL Classifications: L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G1 G2 G3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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