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, especially, the financial cost of filing for bankruptcy. We study the effects of the reform on bankruptcy, insolvency, and …. We find that the decline in bankruptcy filings resulted in a rise in the rate and persistence of insolvency as well as an … that insolvency is associated with worse financial outcomes than bankruptcy, as insolvent individuals have less access to …
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driving asset prices to ‘overshoot’ equilibrium when an asset bubble bursts - threatening widespread insolvency and what …
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under limited liability should be characterized by higher than average insolvency and employment growth rates. We test these … characterized by higher growth and higher insolvency rates than comparable firms under full liability. Surprisingly, the likelihood … liquidation, while the propensity to insolvency is not affected by the owner’s age. The basic empirical results hold in pooled …
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Since the 2008 global financial crisis, and after decades of relative neglect, the importance of the financial system and its episodic crises as drivers of macroeconomic outcomes has attracted fresh scrutiny from academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Theoretical advances are following a...
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How much of carry trade excess returns can be explained by the presence of disaster risk? To answer this question, we propose a simple structural model that includes both Gaussian and disaster risk premia and can be estimated even in samples that do not contain disasters. The model points to a...
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This paper takes the view that a major contributing factor to the financial crisis of 2008 was a failure to correctly assess and price the risk of default. In order to analyse default risk in the macroeconomy, a simple general equilibrium model with banks and financial intermediation is...
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. Theory consistent with dollar appreciation in the crisis suggests that their impact should be greater for countries that have …
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Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the behaviour of foreign and domestic firms. One hypothesis is that foreign multinationals are less...
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Can banks maintain their advantage as liquidity providers when they are heavily exposed to a financial crisis? The standard argument - that banks can - hinges on deposit inflows that are seeking a safe haven and provide banks with a natural hedge to fund drawn credit lines and other commitments....
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The paper analyses and compares the role that the tightening in liquidity conditions and the collapse in risk appetite played for the global transmission of the financial crisis. Dealing with identification and the large dimensionality of the empirical exercise with a Global VAR approach, the...
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