Public Sector Banks (“PSB firms”) to the new bankruptcy environment in terms of their borrowing decisions. Our results …

The moral hazard incentives of the bank safety net predict that distressed banks take on more risk and higher leverage … include financial crises and are subject to different regulatory regimes (1985–1994, 2005–2014). We find that distressed banks …

. We develop a repeated game in which banks come across each other frequently, allowing them to threaten a punishment in … case of free riding. As the number of lending banks grows, the chance of meeting again a bank and of being punished for … restructuring probability increases with the number of banks up to a threshold - three banks - beyond which coordination problems …