. The bankruptcy code is a "primitive creditor system" and financial distress leads to an arbitration between private … agreement and costly formal bankruptcy. We consider a standard debt contract between a bank and a small firm, both risk … show that costly formal bankruptcies may occur at equilibrium and the internalization of bankruptcy costs is impossible …

The aim of this paper is to provide new evidence on the value-creation process taking place in bankruptcy procedures … extent the debtor’s value can be preserved under bankruptcy by analyzing the recovery rates in France, Germany, and the … United Kingdom. We use a unique European sample of 900 corporate bankruptcy files that were manually collected in commercial …

Thousands of U.S. households filed for bankruptcy just before the bankruptcy law changed in 2005. That rush-to-file was … more pronounced, we find, in states with more generous bankruptcy exemptions and lower credit scores. We take that finding … as evidence that the new law effectively reduces exemptions, which in turn should reduce the ?demand? for bankruptcy and …

We argue that the 2005 bankruptcy abuse reform (BAR) contributed to the surge in subprime foreclosures that followed … its passage. Before BAR, distressed mortgagors could free up income by filing bankruptcy and having their unsecured debts … home equity bankruptcy exemptions; filers in low-exemption states were not very protected before BAR, so they would be less …

market competition, lending to households, and personal bankruptcy rates in the United States. We exploit the exogenous … decreased, and (3) bankruptcy rates rose. Further, we find that lending and bankruptcy rates increased more in states with …

bankruptcy procedure is triggered off. This arbitration depends on the legal context and, more specifically, on the national … bankruptcy code. No study has been done on the French Civil Law. Yet, this legal system has inspired other important legislations … inclination for liquidation, collaterals may increase the occurrence of bankruptcy, provided the law facilitates such liquidation …

proportional hazard model of bankruptcy and Merton’s contingent claims approach, we estimate the probability of default for U …