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Personal bankcuptcy law, wealth and entrepreneurship : theory and evidence from the introduction of a "fresh start"

Fossen, Frank M. - 2011

entrepreneurship. -- Personal bankruptcy law ; insolvency ; entrepreneurship ; fresh start …

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Catharsis - the real effects of bank insolvency and resolution

Korte, Josef - 2013

, depositors, and regulators in connection with bank insolvency may corrupt banks' credit allocation and monitoring decisions … insolvency has a cathartic effect using a large firm-level dataset and proposing a new indicator to measure the strength of …

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Identifying empty creditors with a shock and micro-data

Degryse, Hans; Gündüz, Yalın; O'Flynn, Kuchulain; … - 2021

Firms with credit-default swaps (CDS) traded on their debt may face "empty creditors" as hedged creditors have less incentive to participate in firm restructuring. We test for the existence of empty creditors by employing an exogenous change to the bankruptcy code in Germany that effectively...

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The real effects of bank distress : evidence from bank bailouts in Germany

Bersch, Johannes; Degryse, Hans; Kick, Thomas; Stein, Ingrid - 2019

How does bank distress impact their customers' probability of default and trade credit availability? We address this question by looking at a unique sample of German firms from 2000 to 2011. We follow their firm-bank relationships through times of distress and crisis, featuring the different...

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Pre-emptive sovereign debt restructuring and holdout litigation

Anand, Kartik; Gai, Prasanna - 2018

We offer an analytical framework for studying "pre-emptive" debt exchanges. Countries can tailor a sovereign bankruptcy framework by choosing provisions (or "haircuts") ex ante, but must contend with the market discipline of holdout litigation ex post. Secondary markets play a role in shaping...

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The COVID-19 insolvency gap : first-round effects of policy responses on SMEs

Dörr, Julian Oliver; Murmann, Simona; Licht, Georg - 2021

COVID-19 placed a special role to fiscal policy in rescuing companies short of liquidity from insolvency. In the first … focusing on firms’ pre-crisis financial standing, we estimate the extent to which the policy response induced an insolvency gap … measures being focused on smaller firms, we also examine whether this insolvency gap differs with respect to firm size. Based …

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Updating the option implied probability of default methodology

Vilsmeier, Johannes - 2014

In this paper we ‘update’ the option implied probability of default (option iPoD) approach recently suggested in the literature. First, a numerically more stable objective function for the estimation of the risk neutral density is derived whose integrals can be solved analytically. Second,...

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The optimal mix of business entities : the value of partial limited liability

Kraizberg, Elli - 1989

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US real interest rates and default risk in emerging economies

Foley-Fisher, Nathan; Guimarães, Bernardo - 2009

We empirically analyse the appropriateness of indexing emerging market sovereign debt to US real interest rates. We find that policy-induced exogenous increases in US rates raise default risk in emerging market economies, as hypothesised in the theoretical literature. However, we also find...

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Personal bankruptcy law, debt portfolios, and entrepreneurship

Mankart, Jochen; Rodano, Giacomo - 2015

Every year 400,000 entrepreneurs fail and 60,000 file for personal bankruptcy. The option to declare bankruptcy provides entrepreneurs with insurance against the financial consequences of business failures. However, it comes at the cost of worsened credit market conditions. In this paper, we...

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