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Cornelli, Francesca; Felli, Leonardo - 2000

The restructuring of a bankrupt company often entails the sale of such company. This paper suggests a way to sell the company that maximizes the creditors' proceeds. The key to this proposal is the option left to the creditors to retain a fraction of the shares of the company. Indeed, by...

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

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

180,000 debtor-creditor pairs, enabling us to address selection into failed negotiations by matching a rich set of … creditor and debtor characteristics. Failures to settle at the PBS stage due to idiosyncratic bargaining problems, which …Bankruptcy restructuring procedures are used in most legal systems to decide the fate of businesses facing financial …

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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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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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Credit risk in general equilibrium

Eichberger, Jürgen; Rheinberger, Klaus; Summer, Martin - 2014

clearing house (bank) which monitors agents and enforces contracts. Our model develops a concept of bankruptcy equilibrium that … a version of the Capital Asset Pricing Model with bankruptcy. In this case we can characterize equilibrium prices and …

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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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Consumer debt and default : a macro perspective

Exler, Florian; Tertilt, Michele - 2020

providing an overview of consumer bankruptcy law in the US and document the relevant institutional changes over time. We proceed … implications of various bankruptcy laws? And second, what caused the rise in filings over time? We end with a discussion of open …

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Behavioural credit cycles

Delli Gatti, Domenico; Iannotta, Gabriele - 2022

We explore the intertwined dynamics of asset prices and the macroeconomy in a Behavioural model of Credit Cycles (BCC) characterized by a credit friction à la Kiyotaki and Moore and heterogeneous expectations cum heuristic switching à la Brock and Hommes. This behavioural approach allows to...

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