Insolvency systems play a crucial role in protection of creditor rights, yet micro-level empirical evidence on the functioning of insolvency regimes worldwide is sparse. We investigate whether creditors' recovery of outstanding claims, a measure of ex-post efficiency of an insolvency regime,...

The use of a restructuring regime (the CCAA) to carry out going concern sales of insolvent firms is growing in Canada. Two critical questions must be addressed when considering this phenomena. The first is whether this provides support for the view that traditional restructurings are being...