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 removes their potential impact on CDS firms. Using a unique dataset on …