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Why do banks remain passive? In a model of bank-firm relationship we study the trade-off a bank faces when having defaulting firms declared bankrupt. First, the bank receives a payoff if a firm is liquidated. Second, it provides information about a firm's type to its competitors. Thereby,...
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. It turns out that project games are related to bankruptcy and taxation games.This relation allows us to establish the …
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Limited liability may result in inefficient accident prevention, because a relevant portion of the expected harm is externalized on victims. This paper shows that under some restrictive conditions further limiting liability by means of a liability cap can improve caretaking.
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This paper introduces a large-scale administrative panel data set on corporate bankruptcy in Germany that allows for an … to bankruptcy risk but confirm negative size dependence for mature plants, only. Our results corroborate hypotheses … stressing increasing capabilities and positional advantage, both predicting negative age dependence with respect to bankruptcy …
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In this paper we use balance-sheet data and information on bankruptcy to study the relationship between investment …, financial constraints, and bankruptcy in a posttransition country. Our data constitute a dynamic panel and cover the period 2006 …
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clearing house (bank) which monitors agents and enforces contracts. Our model develops a concept of bankruptcy equilibrium that … a version of the Capital Asset Pricing Model with bankruptcy. In this case we can characterize equilibrium prices and …
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employees, we analyze plant-level employment patterns before bankruptcy, plant closure without bankruptcy, and mass layoff … bankruptcy. Our analysis of worker flows underlines that bankruptcies seem to struggle for survival while closures follow a … largest for closures without bankruptcy. …
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way that the firms and the territories behave mainly in case of bad economic performance and even bankruptcy. Within this …
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Auto lenders were perhaps the biggest winners of the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform. Cars depreciate quickly, so borrowers … to the market value of the car through a "cramdown" in Chapter 13 bankruptcy. The Reform prohibited cramdowns during the … eliminating cramdowns affected only one of the two types of consumer bankruptcy: Chapter 13. They exploit persistent historical …
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