Over the past decade several countries, including the US, have introduced or redesigned legislation that confers priority in bankruptcy upon all or some bank deposits. We argue that in the presence of contracting costs such rules can increase efficiency. We first show in a private information...

Most individual debtors file for bankruptcy relief with honest intentions. Nonetheless, there is also an underside to the American bankruptcy law system that often goes unreported and ignored in the scholarly literature, namely, the commission of fraud by debtors who seek protection under the...

Using a European sample of 211 listed firms from 2013 to 2022, we analyze the mitigation effect on firms’ probability of default (PD) provided by the effect of ESG performance combined with firms’ industry or membership in stock indexes. The study implements a novel approach, monitoring both...