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Using bankruptcy to reduce foreclosures : does strip-down of mortgages affect the supply of mortgage credit?

Li, Wenli; Ishani, Tewari; White, Michelle J. - 2014 - Current version: February 2014

We assess the credit market impact of allowing mortgage "strip-down" as a foreclosure-prevention measure, where strip-down reduces the principal of underwater residential mortgages to the current market value of the property for homeowners in Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Our identification is provided...

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Firm heterogeneity and credit risk diversification

Hanson, Samuel G. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper considers a simple model of credit risk and derives the limit distribution of losses under different assumptions regarding the structure of systematic and idiosyncratic risks and the nature of firm heterogeneity. The theoretical results obtained indicate that if firm-specific risk...

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Debt recovery in firm liquidations : do liquidation trustees matter?

Cepec, Jaka; Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - 2016

Insolvency systems play a crucial role in protection of creditor rights, yet micro-level empirical evidence on the … functioning of insolvency regimes worldwide is sparse. We investigate whether creditors' recovery of outstanding claims, a measure … of ex-post efficiency of an insolvency regime, depends on the characteristics of the trustee delegated the administration …

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The impact of delay : evidence from formal out-of-court restructuring

Srhoj, Stjepan; Kovač, Dejan; Shapiro, Jacob N.; … - 2021

Bankruptcy restructuring procedures are used in most legal systems to decide the fate of businesses facing financial hardship. We study how bargaining failures in such procedures impact the economic performance of participating firms in the context of Croatia, which introduced a "pre-bankruptcy...

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Advantageous smallness in contests

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2021

A standard result in contests is that a higher-ability player has a higher probability of winning the prize than a lower-ability player. Put differently, a stronger player has an advantage over a weaker player in a contest. There are very few exceptions to this standard result. I consider a...

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Bankruptcy : is it enough to forgive or must we also forget?

Elul, Ronel (contributor); Gottardi, Piero (contributor) - 2008

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Creditor passivity : the effects of bank competition and institutions on the strategic use of bankruptcy filings

Hainz, Christa (contributor) - 2007

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Analysis of monetary policy and financial stability : a new paradigm

Goodhart, Charles A. E.; Osorio, Carolina; Tsomocos, … - 2009

This paper introduces agent heterogeneity, liquidity, and endogenous default to a DSGE framework. Our model allows for a comprehensive assessment of regulatory and monetary policy, as well as welfare analysis in the different sectors of the economy. Due to liquidity and endogenous default, the...

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Illiquidity and under-valuation of firms

Gale, Douglas; Gottardi, Piero - 2009

We study a competitive model in which market incompleteness implies that debt-financed firms may default in some states of nature and default may lead to the sale of the firms' assets at fire sale prices when markets are illiquid. This incompleteness is the only friction in the model and the...

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Business cycle effects of credit and technology shocks in a DSGE model with firm defaults

Pesaran, M. Hashem; Xu, TengTeng - 2011

This paper proposes a theoretical framework to analyze the impacts of credit and technology shocks on business cycle dynamics, where firms rely on banks and households for capital financing. Firms are identical ex ante but differ ex post due to different realizations of firm specific technology...

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