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Bankruptcy is the legal process whereby financially distressed firms, individuals, and occasionally governments resolve their debts. The bankruptcy process for firms plays a central role in economics, because competition drives inefficient firms out of business, thereby raising the average...
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We explore Lithuanian credit register data and two bank closures to provide a novel estimate of firms' bank-switching costs and a novel identification of the hold-up problem. We show that when a distressed bank's closure forced firms to switch, these firms started borrowing at lower interest...
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specify default, renegotiation and reorganization policies. Renegotiation entails a redistribution of social surplus, while … reorganization takes the form of enhanced creditor monitoring. Firms with better contract histories are less likely to default, but … monitoring is too costly, renegotiation leads to reorganization, which resembles actual bankruptcy practice. We calibrate the …
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