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Different approaches to bankruptcy

Hart, Oliver - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 1, pp. 3-8

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Insolvency laws around the world - a statistical analysis and rules for their design

Claessens, Stijn; Klapper, Leora - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 1, pp. 9-15

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Bankruptcy and small business - lessons from the US and recent reforms

White, Michelle - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 1, pp. 22-26

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Debt Restructuring

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2000

What difference does it make, and for whom, whether the nonperforming debts of emerging market borrowers are restructured? This paper begins by positing a set of counterfactual conditions under which restructuring would not matter, and then shows how several ways in which the actual world of...

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Fiscal Policy in the Age of COVID : Does it ‘Get in all of the Cracks?'

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the effects of fiscal policy in response to the COVID-19 pandemic at the firm, sector, country and global level. First, we estimate the impact of COVID-19 and policy responses on small and medium sized enterprise (SME) business failures. We combine firm-level financial data from 50...

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Statutory Auditors’ Independence in Protecting Stakeholders’ Interest : An Empirical Study

Roy, Mitrendu Narayan; Saha, Siddhartha Sankar - 2018

Corporate failures and accounting scandals had shaken the foundations of investors’ confidence in the transparency, integrity and accountability of corporations and financial markets. There had also been public disquiet about the role of professional auditors and audit firms, who had been...

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Creditor rights and corporate risk-taking

Acharya, Viral V. - 2009

bankruptcy reduce corporate risk-taking. In cross-country analysis, we find that stronger creditor rights induce greater …

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Hedge Funds as Liquidity Providers : Evidence from the Lehman Bankruptcy

Aragon, George O. - 2009

Using the September 15, 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers as an exogenous shock to funding costs, we show that hedge … funds act as liquidity providers. Hedge funds using Lehman as prime broker could not trade after the bankruptcy, and these …-connected hedge funds in turn experienced greater declines in market liquidity following the bankruptcy than other stocks; and, the …

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How the Subprime Crisis Went Global : Evidence from Bank Credit Default Swap Spreads

Eichengreen, Barry - 2009

How did the Subprime Crisis, a problem in a small corner of U.S. financial markets, affect the entire global banking system? To shed light on this question we use principal components analysis to identify common factors in the movement of banks' credit default swap spreads. We find that fortunes...

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The Forgotten History of Domestic Debt

Reinhart, Carmen M. - 2008

There is a rich scholarly literature on sovereign default on external debt. Comparatively little is known about sovereign defaults on domestic debt. Even today, cross-country data on domestic public debt remains curiously exotic, particularly prior to the 1980s. We have filled this gap in the...

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