This study is aimed at developing new empirical models for evaluating the efficiency of bankruptcy legislations. The paper is divided in three parts. In the first part, we analyze from a conceptual point of view the effects on debtor firms of the lack of creditors' powers in bankruptcy. In the...

Die Fremdkapitalfinanzierung der deutschen Unternehmen erlebt derzeit drastische Umbrüche, die mit dem Näherrücken der Einführung der Basel-II-Regeln zur Eigenkapitalhinterlegung von Firmenkrediten bei den Banken noch nicht abgeschlossen sein dürften. Strukturprobleme und die...

Zwar sind Anzeichen einer konjunkturellen Erholung nach Phasen der Stagnation und Rezession erkennbar, doch um einen nachhaltigen wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung zu erreichen, müssen notwendige Strukturreformen durchgesetzt werden. Insbesondere bei kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen führen...

Russia's foreign debt problems worsened substantially after the financial crisis of 1998. The paper focuses on the key role of the government in servicing foreign debt and promoting institution building by showing how foreign debt influences the choice between official and unofficial taxation....

Russia's foreign debt problems worsened substantially after the financial crisis of 1998. The paper focuses on the key role of the government in servicing foreign debt and promoting institution building by showing how foreign debt influences the choice between official and unofficial taxation....

This paper estimates the effect of sovereign debt renegotiation on international trade. Sovereign default may be associated with a subsequent decline in international trade either because creditors want to deter default by debtors, or because trade finance dries up after default. To estimate the...