Eraslan, Hülya; Koşar, Gizem; Li, Wenli; Sarte, … - 2016
We build a structural model of Chapter 13 bankruptcy that captures salient features of personal bankruptcy under … Chapter 13. We estimate our model using a novel data set that we construct from bankruptcy court dockets recorded in Delaware … in 2001 and 2002. Our estimation results highlight the importance of debtor's choice of repayment plan length for Chapter …