Browsing Faculty Publications (Bibliographic) by Author "Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal"
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Connecting the right knots: The impact of board committee interlocks on the performance of Indian firms
Edacherian, Saneesh; Richter, Ansgar; Karna, Amit; Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal (2023-03-21)Research Question/Issue Information processing, agency, and resource dependence perspectives provide diverging predictions regarding the relationship between board interlocks and firm performance, which are rooted in ... -
COVID-19 pandemic and debt financing by firms: unravelling the channels
Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal; Jacob, Joshy; Mohapatra, Sanket (Elsevier, 2022-06-18)The COVID-19-induced disruptions and the consequent government responses stretched the financial resources of firms. Recent studies document an increase in debt financing by firms during the pandemic. Using firm-level data ... -
The effects of reporting standards and information sharing on loan contracting: cross-country evidence
Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal (Cogent Economics & Finance, 2020)Institutional factors that enhance the quality of financial reporting and sharing of credit information can alleviate informational gaps between contracting parties and improve loan contract terms. Using cross-country data ... -
Financial fluctuations anchored to economic fundamentals: a mesoscopic network approach
Sharma, Kiran; Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal; Chakrabarti, Anindya; Chakraborti, Anirban (Nature Research, 2017)We demonstrate the existence of an empirical linkage between nominal financial networks and the underlying economic fundamentals, across countries. We construct the nominal return correlation networks from daily data to ... -
Global risk and demand for gold by central banks
Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal; Mohapatra, Sanket (Taylor and Francis, 2017)This article examines the influence of global risk on the holding of gold by central banks based on annual data for 100 countries during 1990–2015. We use a dynamic panel generalized method of moments model to estimate ... -
Insolvency regimes and firms' default risk under economic uncertainty and shocks
Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal; Mohapatra, Sanket (Economic Modelling, 2020-06-18)One of the arguments often advanced for implementing a stronger insolvency and bankruptcy framework is that it enhances credit discipline among firms. Using a large cross-country firm-level dataset, we empirically test ... -
Is ESG the key to unlock debt financing during the COVID-19 pandemic? international evidence☆
Srivastava, Jagriti; Sampath, Aravind; Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal (Elsevier, 2022-07-14)In this article, we examine whether stakeholder engagement impacts firms’ ability to raise debt during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using firm-level data from 51 countries, we find that firms with greater stakeholder engagement ... -
Pandemic panic? effects of health system capacity on firm confidence during COVID-19
Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal; Mohapatra, Sanket; Lim, Jamus Jerome (ScienceDirect, 2023-07-26)We examine whether firms’ business confidence – defined as their perceptions of risk and sentiment associated with the COVID-19 pandemic – is affected by ex ante health system capacity and ex post government responses. ... -
Risk-sensitive Basel regulations and firms' access to credit: direct and indirect effects
Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal; Jacob, Joshy; Mohapatra, Sanket (Elsevier, 2021-03-09)This paper examines the impact of risk-sensitive Basel regulations on debt financing of firms around the world. It investigates how firms cope with the impact through adjustments to their financing sources and capital ... -
Turning over a golden leaf? global liquidity and emerging market central banks’ demand for gold after the financial crisis Mohapatra
Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal; Mohapatra, Sanket (ScienceDirect, 2018-11)The quantity of gold reserves held by central banks in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) has risen sharply in the years following the global financial crisis of 2008. EMDE central banks’ gold holdings rose ... -
Understanding the government’s attempt to transform attitudes towards a critical resource: gold monetization in India
Narayanan, Priya; Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal; Sahay, Arvind (Resources Policy, 2020)We examine the Indian government's attempts to transform consumer attitudes towards a critical mineral asset in order to bring a part of 25,000 tonnes of privately held gold back into economic circulation through the Gold ... -
Work from home amenability and venture capital financing during COVID-19
Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal; Srivastava, Jagriti (Taylor & Francis, 2022-03-21)This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 on venture capital financing of firms. We find a significant shift in the profile of firms that obtain venture capital financing during the pandemic-induced economic crisis. Firms ...