Focusing on home owners, the paper discusses the reduction in a household’s credit access due to bankruptcy filing and … its two effects that may deter a household from filing for bankruptcy. Empirical evidence presented in the paper suggests … that a household with a bankruptcy record is about 30% more likely to lose home ownership and consequently the mortgage …

brink of bankruptcy. In one case, AIG used securities lending to transform insurance company assets into residential …

Under the assumption that asset markets are incomplete, this paper introduces bankruptcy in an intertemporal … argues that intervention in the form of a level of bankruptcy exemption can enhance not only social welfare but also … distributive equity. The bankruptcy law is carefully specified in the model. The model generates distributional changes in …

general equilibrium model. Binding ceilings on loan rates reduce the probability of bankruptcy. Lower bankruptcy rates result … in lower bankruptcy and liquidation costs. The authors state conditions under which the resources freed by this cost …