Longhofer, Stanley D.; Peters, Stephen R. - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 2000
occur when a debtor’s liabilities exceed its assets. In the absence of a bankruptcy law, the private debt …Revised. In this article we provide a rationale for bankruptcy law that is based on the conflicts among creditors that …-collection remedies that creditors pursue when a debtor is insolvent result in an ad hoc disposal of the debtor’s assets, thereby reducing …