Two recent papers examine the impact of corporate bankruptcy laws on new business start-ups in 29 countries over 1990 … bankruptcy laws over the years studied. It is statistically inappropriate and inaccurate to treat bankruptcy laws as time … invariant, as in Peng et al. (2010) and Lee et al. (2010), particularly in view of the dramatic changes in bankruptcy laws over …

Two recent papers examine the impact of corporate bankruptcy laws on new business start-ups in 29 countries over 1990 … bankruptcy laws over the years studied. It is statistically inappropriate and inaccurate to treat bankruptcy laws as time … invariant, as in Peng et al. (2010) and Lee et al. (2010), particularly in view of the dramatic changes in bankruptcy laws over …

percent of novice entrepreneurs who file for bankruptcy reestablish afterwards. On average, slightly more than 15 months will …

If an entrepreneur files for bankruptcy under Chapter 7, (i) most of her debt is discharged, and (ii) only her non …

technology to deal with private debt distress (bankruptcy technology), and obstacles to entrepreneurship (high costs of doing …