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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 … context of Croatia, which introduced a "pre-bankruptcy settlement" (PBS) process in the wake of the Great Recession of 2007 … effectively delays entry into the standard bankruptcy procedure, leads to a lower rate of survival among debtors as well as re …
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Flexible prices and leverage
D'Acunto, Francesco; Liu, Ryan; Pflueger, Carolin; … - 2017
The frequency with which firms adjust output prices helps explain persistent differences in capital structure across firms. Unconditionally, the most exible-price firms have a 19% higher long-term leverage ratio than the most sticky-price firms, controlling for known determinants of capital...
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Equilibrium theory of banks' capital structure
Gale, Douglas; Gottardi, Piero - 2017
balance the benefits of the provision of liquidity services by bank deposits with the costs of bankruptcy. The risk in 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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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,...
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A welfare analysis on start-up decisions under default risk
Comincioli, Nicola; Panteghini, Paolo; Vergalli, Sergio - 2021
This short article studies the tax effects on a start-up investment decision under uncertainty. Since the representative firm can decide both when to invest and how much to borrow, the distortive effects are twofold. We thus show that the deadweight loss (namely, the ratio between the welfare...
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Business tax policy under default risk
Comincioli, Nicola; Vergalli, Sergio; Panteghini, Paolo - 2019
In this article we use a stochastic model with one representative firm to study business tax policy under default risk. We will show that, for a given tax rate, the government has an incentive to reduce (increase) financial instability and default costs if its objective function is welfare (tax...
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Low inflation : high default risk AND high equity valuations
Bhamra, Harjoat Singh; Dorion, Christian; Jeanneret, … - 2018
We develop an asset-pricing model with endogenous corporate policies that explains how inflation jointly impacts real asset prices and corporate default risk. Our model includes two empirically grounded nominal frictions: fixed nominal coupons and sticky profitability. Taken together, these two...
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Institutions, financial development, and small business survival : evidence from European emerging markets
Iwasaki, Ichirō; Kočenda, Evžen; Shida, Yoshisada - 2020
In this paper, we traced the survival status of 94,401 small businesses in 17 European emerging markets from 2007–2017 and empirically examined the determinants of their survival, focusing on institutional quality and financial development. We found that institutional quality and the level of...
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Local capital scarcity and small firm growth : evidence from real estate booms in China
Hau, Harald; Ouyang, Difei - 2019
In geographically segmented credit markets, local real estate booms can deteriorate the funding conditions for small manufacturing firms and undermine their competitiveness. Using exogenous variation in the administrative land supply across 172 Chinese cities, we show that higher predicted real...
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