Hertzel, Michael G.; Officer, Micah S. - In: Journal of Financial Economics 103 (2012) 3, pp. 493-506
) in the two years surrounding bankruptcy filings by industry rivals. This industry-specific contagion is particularly … severe in the middle of industry bankruptcy waves. Furthermore, this contagion in loan spreads is mitigated in concentrated … industries, consistent with the hypothesis and evidence in Lang and Stulz (1992) that bankruptcy filings in concentrated …