Financing Firms in India

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Franklin Allen

Imperial College London

Rajesh Chakrabarti

O. P. Jindal Global University

Sankar De

Independent

Jun "QJ" Qian

Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University

Meijun Qian

Zhejiang University International Business School

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Date Written: April 11, 2009

Abstract

With extensive cross-country datasets and India firm samples, as well as our own surveys of small and medium firms, we examine the legal and business environments, financing channels, and growth patterns of different types of firms in India. Despite the English common-law origin and a British-style judicial system, Indian firms face weak investor protection in practice and poor institutions characterized by corruption and inefficiency. Alternative finance, including financing from all non-bank, non-market sources, and generally backed by non-legal mechanisms, constitutes the most important form of external finance. Bank loans provide the second most important external financing source. Firms with access to bank or market finance are not associated with higher growth rates. Our results indicate that bank and market finance is not superior to alternative finance in fast-growing economies such as India.

Keywords: India, banks, markets, alternative finance, growth

JEL Classification: O5, K0, G0

Suggested Citation

Allen, Franklin and Chakrabarti, Rajesh and De, Sankar and Qian, Jun and Qian, Meijun, Financing Firms in India (April 11, 2009). EFA 2006 Zurich Meetings, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=898066 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.898066

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Rajesh Chakrabarti

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