PES Business Review

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This paper examines the cross sectional variation in the capital structure of 1314 Indian firms from the ownership structure perspective. Ownership structure is defined as promoters' shareholding and institutional investors' shareholding. The study finds a negative relationship between the ownership structure variables and capital structure. This could be because the average promoters' shareholding for the sample firms is 50 per cent. Hence, the concentration of promoters'shareholding increases the risk of the promoters and prompts them to reduce the risk of financial risk by employment of higher levels of debt Institutional investors' shareholding and debt employment are also inversely related. This may be because the institutional investors choose to avoid high debt firms as they have a higher probability of suffering from financial risk in the future.

Keywords

Ownership Structure, Capital Structure, Financial Risk, Agency Costs, Concentration of Promoters' Shareholding.
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