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,...

Despite the judiciary's central role in the capitalist market system, micro-level empirical analyses of courts in post-socialist countries are remarkably rare. This paper draws on a unique hand-collected dataset of commercial claims filed at Slovenian courts to examine the determinants of two...

We examine micro-level data on Slovenian court-supervised financial reorganizations in order to provide a rare empirical insight into the effectiveness of bankruptcy institutions at fulfilling their primary role: encouraging the liquidation of non-viable firms and promoting the restructuring of...