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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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entrepreneurship. -- Personal bankruptcy law ; insolvency ; entrepreneurship ; fresh start …
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, 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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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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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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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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Correlated defaults and systemic risk are clearly priced in credit portfolio securities such as CDOs or index CDSs. In this paper we study an extensive CDX data set for evidence whether correlated defaults are also present in the underlying CDS market. We develop a cash flow based top-down...
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