liability rules and bankruptcy laws decreases as exogenous sources of uncertainty become relatively more important, and … increases with the opportunity for moral hazard (related to diligence, risk taking, or deception). Second, bankruptcy laws …

specific risks. There are many reasons to use nonlinear techniques for predicting bankruptcy from financial ratios. Here we … the Creditreform database. The results reveal that the most important eight predictors related to bankruptcy for these …

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 …