A growing number of jurisdictions have adopted bankruptcy law reforms to aid debt restructuring. By utilizing a difference-in-differences model based on bankruptcy law reforms across six economically advanced jurisdictions, we discover that firms adopt more diversified debt instruments following...

A growing number of jurisdictions have adopted bankruptcy law reforms to aid debt restructuring. By utilizing a difference-in-differences model based on bankruptcy law reforms across six economically advanced jurisdictions, we discover that firms adopt more diversified debt instruments following...

A growing number of jurisdictions have adopted bankruptcy law reforms in the spirit of U.S. Chapter 11 to facilitate the restructuring of distressed corporate debt. This paper evaluates the impact of these reforms on firms' choice of debt structures. Using a difference-in-differences design...