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Limited liability may result in inefficient accident prevention, because a relevant portion of the expected harm is externalized on victims. This paper shows that under some restrictive conditions further limiting liability by means of a liability cap can improve caretaking.
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feasible. This paper develops a two-country general equilibrium model to examine the benefits of the bankruptcy code of a … welfare of a currency union. When domestic credit risks are present, I show that a lenient bankruptcy code in the cross … risks; I show that softening the bankruptcy code can recoup the lost benefits of floating nominal exchange rates. The model …
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In this paper, we analyze sequential bankruptcy problems, which generalize bankruptcy problems. They contain the … mechanisms for generalizing rules for bankruptcy problems to rules for sequential bankruptcy problems: the upwards, the downwards … compare the three mechanisms based on inheritance of well-established properties for bankruptcy rules to the setting of …
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We extend the Hidden Markov Model for defaults of Crowder, Davis, and Giampieri (2005) to include covariates. The covariates enhance the prediction of transition probabilities from high to low default regimes. To estimate the model, we extend the EM estimating equations to account for the time...
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We introduce a new solution for bankruptcy problems that satisfies weaker versions of the Exemption en Exclusion … bankruptcy rule that satisfies both. However, weakening these conditions (by putting lower boundaries on what is considered to be … Exclusion property such that there is a unique bankruptcy rule that satisfies these two properties together with Consistency and …
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