(including unsecured debt, liquid assets, and illiquid assets) play in default decisions. In sharp contrast to prior studies that … strongest predictor of default. We find that individual unemployment increases the probability of default by 5 - 13 percentage … points, ceteris paribus, compared with the sample average default rate of 3.9 percent. We also find that only 13.9 percent of …

significantly reduces severe financial distress, decreasing the likelihood of filing for bankruptcy by 61% in the three years …

unobservable and incomplete contracts with and without renegotiation opportunities under the assumption that the principal cannot … outcomes to a subset of Nash equilibrium outcomes and renegotiation imposes further constraints. Yet, there is a large class of …

analyze the equilibrium outcomes of twostage games with renegotiation-proof third-party contracts in relation to the … outcomes of the game without contracts. Introducing renegotiation, in general, imposes further constraints and in some games …

such as informal agreements and expost renegotiation. We investigate the relevance of these features experimentally. Our … the presence of informal agreements and ex post renegotiation. However, our data also reveal new behavioral features that … renegotiation changes how trading parties evaluate ex post outcomes. Interestingly, the availability of these additional options …