Bankruptcy Law And Equity Capital: Evidence From India
By Bitan Chakraborty, Sanjay Kallapur, Sriniwas Mahapatro, Prasanna Tantri
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Chakraborty, Bitan., Kallapur, Sanjay., Mahapatro, Sriniwas., Tantri, Prasanna. (2024). Bankruptcy Law And Equity Capital: Evidence From India .
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2024
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Abstract
We examine the impact of a stringent creditor-in-control bankruptcy law on the equity capital of firms in India. Exploiting the within-country differences in court efficiency for identification using a differences-in-difference framework, we find that higher exposure to the bankruptcy law leads to a higher inflow of new equity investments into firms. Additional investments by non-controlling outside shareholders drive the increase. Reduction in agency costs due to the disciplining impact of the law seems to be the mechanism. The incremental equity flows lead to a higher level of investments and innovation.

Sanjay Kallapur is a Professor of Accounting at the Indian School of Business (ISB). He joined ISB in 2005 from the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, where he was a tenured Associate Professor.

Professor Kallapur conducts research on financial and managerial accounting, auditing, corporate governance, and risk management. He has published in each of the top three accounting journals, and his papers have been cited over 4,000 times (Google Scholar) and in regulatory policy documents in India and the UK. The American Accounting Association recently published his monograph on scientific inference in accounting research, beyond the use of p-values.

He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Accounting Theory and Practice, a research journal focusing on India, published by Elsevier. He has been an editor of The Accounting Review from 2008 to 2011, the first person from outside North America to be appointed to that position.

Professor Kallapur is a member of National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA), the regulatory body overseeing the accounting and auditing of listed companies in India. He is an independent director on the Board of IDBI Bank, where he serves on the risk management and audit committees. He previously served on the Board of the Life Insurance Corporation of India.

Professor Kallapur has held positions as Associate Dean and Deputy Dean for almost a decade at ISB. He started the PhD-equivalent Fellow Programme in Management at ISB and has placed his students in faculty positions at the London School of Economics, IESEG Paris, Aalto University, University of Queensland, University of Western Australia, and IIM Udaipur.

Professor Kallapur has a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard Business School, and B.Com. and M.M.S. degrees from Mumbai University. He is professionally qualified as a Fellow Member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (FCMA).

Sanjay Kallapur
Sanjay Kallapur

Prasanna Tantri is an Associate Professor of Finance and the Executive Director of the Centre for Analytical Finance at the Indian School of Business (ISB). He also serves as an Independent Director and Chair of the Audit Committee at Power Finance Corporation. In 2o24, he was appointed as a Member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Evaluation of Schemes for the Promotion of Digital Payments in India, under the Development Monitoring & Evaluation Office (DMEO), NITI Aayog.

Professor Tantri has previously been a part of the Expert Working Group at the National Stock Exchange and a Member of the Technical Group on the Social Stock Exchange, constituted by the Securities and Exchange Board of India. His research interests include banking, financial inclusion, financial contagion, regulation, and the relationship between politics and finance.

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Prasanna Tantri