IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wsi/rpbfmp/v11y2008i03ns0219091508001416.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Investment and Capital Market Imperfections: Some Evidence from a Developing Economy, India

Author

Listed:
  • Saumitra N. Bhaduri

    (Madras School of Economics, Gandhi Mandapam Road, Chennai-600 025, India)

Abstract

This paper presents a switching regression model of investment decision where the probability of a firm facing financial constraint is endogenously determined. The approach, therefore, obviates the use ofa prioricriteria to exogenously identify the financially constrained firms, and thereby addresses the potential misclassification problem faced in the existing literature. A sample of 576 Indian manufacturing firms, collected across 15 broad industries is used for this study. The study establishes that financially constrained firms exhibit a much higher investment-cash flow sensitivity than those identified to be unconstrained. It also probes into the possible determinants of financial constraints, and finds empirical support for its hypothesis that young, liquidity constrained and low dividend payout firms are more likely to face financial constraints, when compared to their respective counterparts. This paper also provides some insight into the impact of the ongoing liberalization program on the financial constraints faced by the Indian firms.

Suggested Citation

  • Saumitra N. Bhaduri, 2008. "Investment and Capital Market Imperfections: Some Evidence from a Developing Economy, India," Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 11(03), pages 411-428.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:rpbfmp:v:11:y:2008:i:03:n:s0219091508001416
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219091508001416
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0219091508001416
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1142/S0219091508001416?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Laeven, Luc, 2000. "Does financial liberalization relax financing constraints on firms ?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2467, The World Bank.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Malcolm Athaide & H. K. Pradhan, 0. "A model of credit constraint for MSMEs in India," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 0, pages 1-19.
    2. Malcolm Athaide & H. K. Pradhan, 2020. "A model of credit constraint for MSMEs in India," Small Business Economics, Springer, vol. 55(4), pages 1159-1177, December.
    3. Benard Kipyegon Kirui & Nelson H.W. Wawire, 2018. "Measures of Financial Constraints in Kenya," International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Econjournals, vol. 8(1), pages 217-231.
    4. Chung-Hua Shen & Chih-Yung Lin, 2016. "Political connections, financial constraints, and corporate investment," Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Springer, vol. 47(2), pages 343-368, August.
    5. Athreye, Suma & Saeed, Abubakr & Baloch, Muhammad Saad, 2021. "Financial crisis of 2008 and outward foreign investments from China and India," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 56(3).
    6. Jose, Amal & Bhaduri, Saumitra, 2024. "Promoter's share pledging and investment–The role of financial constraints," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 62(PA).
    7. Vikash Gautam & Rajendra R. Vaidya, 2018. "Evidence on the determinants of investment-cash flow sensitivity," Indian Economic Review, Springer, vol. 53(1), pages 229-244, December.
    8. Carlos Carreira & Filipe Silva, 2010. "No Deep Pockets: Some Stylized Empirical Results On Firms’ Financial Constraints," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 24(4), pages 731-753, September.
    9. Pranab Kumar Das, 2014. "Finance Constraint and Firm Investment: A Survey of Econometric Methodology," Accounting and Finance Research, Sciedu Press, vol. 3(2), pages 138-138, May.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Kaminsky, Graciela L. & Repetto, Andrea, 2001. "Comments," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 123256, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Babajide Fowowe, 2011. "Financial Sector Reforms And Private Investment In Sub-Saharan African Countries," Journal of Economic Development, Chung-Ang Unviersity, Department of Economics, vol. 36(3), pages 79-97, September.
    3. Hoyt Bleakley & Kevin Cowan, 2008. "Corporate Dollar Debt and Depreciations: Much Ado About Nothing?," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 90(4), pages 612-626, November.
    4. Canales, Rodrigo & Nanda, Ramana, 2012. "A darker side to decentralized banks: Market power and credit rationing in SME lending," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 105(2), pages 353-366.
    5. Mr. Olaf Unteroberdoerster & Ms. Runchana Pongsaparn, 2011. "Financial Integration and Rebalancing in Asia," IMF Working Papers 2011/243, International Monetary Fund.
    6. Jaewoon Koo & Sunwoo Shin, 2004. "Financial Liberalization and Corporate Investments: Evidence from Korean Firm Data," Asian Economic Journal, East Asian Economic Association, vol. 18(3), pages 277-292, September.
    7. Kerr, William R. & Nanda, Ramana, 2009. "Democratizing entry: Banking deregulations, financing constraints, and entrepreneurship," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(1), pages 124-149, October.
    8. Akinsola, Folusu A. & Odhiambo, Nicholas M., 2018. "Revisiting financial liberalisation and economic growth: A review of international literature," Working Papers 24794, University of South Africa, Department of Economics.
    9. Hoyt Bleakley & Kevin Cowan, 2005. "Deuda empresarial denominada en dólares y depreciación: ¿mucho ruido y pocas nueces?," Research Department Publications 4412, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Investment; capital market imperfection; financial constraints; emerging economy; India;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets
    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • G3 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wsi:rpbfmp:v:11:y:2008:i:03:n:s0219091508001416. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tai Tone Lim (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.worldscinet.com/rpbfmp/rpbfmp.shtml .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.