Cohen-Cole, Ethan; Duygan-Bump, Burcu; … - Federal Reserve Bank of Boston - 2009
Conventional wisdom about individuals who have gone bankrupt is that they find it very difficult to get credit for at … availability of credit post-bankruptcy. This paper makes two contributions using data from one of the largest credit bureaus in the … US. First, we show that individuals who file for bankruptcy can indeed get credit very quickly after they file. Indeed …