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Bankruptcy Process for Sale
Ayotte, Kenneth - 2020
The lenders that fund Chapter 11 reorganizations exert significant influence over the bankruptcy process through the contract associated with the debtor-in-possession (“DIP”) loan. In this Article, we study a large sample of DIP loan contracts and document a trend: over the past three...
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The dynamics of adjustable-rate subprime mortgage default : a structural estimation
Fang, Hanming; Kim, You Suk; Li, Wenli - 2015
We present a dynamic structural model of subprime adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) borrowers making payment decisions taking into account possible consequences of different degrees of delinquency from their lenders. We empirically implement the model using unique data sets that contain information...
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Bankruptcy resolution and the restoration of priority of claims
Capkun, Vedran; Weiss, Lawrence A. - 2016
We present new evidence on the violation of priority of claims in bankruptcy and recovery rates for secured creditors, unsecured creditors, equity holders using a sample of firms that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy between 1993 and 2004. Our study reveals a number of new insights: First, we...
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A dialogue on the costs and benefits of automatic stays for derivatives and repurchase agreements
Duffie, Darrell; Skeel, David - 2012 - Last rev.: March 04, 2012
For nearly two years, the two of us have had a running discussion of the costs and benefits of automatic stays in bankruptcy for qualified financial contracts (QFCs) such as derivatives and repurchase agreements, particularly those held by systemically important major dealer banks. Under current...
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How costly is corporate bankruptcy for top executives?
Eckbo, B. Espen; Thorburn, Karin S.; Wang, Wei - 2012
We examine chief executive officer (CEO) career and compensation changes for large firms filing for Chapter 11. One-third of the incumbent CEOs maintain executive employment, and these CEOs experience a median compensation change of zero. However, incumbent CEOs leaving the executive labor...
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A market-based study of the cost of default
Davydenko, Sergei A.; Strebulaev, Ilya A.; Zhao, Xiaofei - 2012
Although the cost of financial distress is a central issue in capital structure and credit risk studies, reliable estimates of its size are difficult to come by. This paper proposes a novel method of extracting the cost of default from the change in the market value of a firm's assets upon...
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Second liens and the holdup problem in mortgage renegotiation
Agarwal, Sumit; Amromin, Gene; Ben-David, Itzhak; … - 2014
When borrowers are delinquent, senior debtholders prefer liquidation whereas junior debtholders prefer to maintain their option value by delaying resolution or modifying the loan. In the mortgage market, a conflict of interest (“holdup”) arises when servicers of securitized senior liens are...
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Are Female CEOs Associated With Lower Insolvency Risk? Evidence From the U.S. Property-Casualty Insurance Industry
Cheng, Jiang; Li, Jing - 2023
This paper investigates the relationship between female CEOs and insolvency risk of U.S. property-casualty insurance … companies. We show that female CEOs are associated with lower insurer insolvency propensity, higher z-score, and lower standard … difference-in-difference approach. Furthermore, we find that the impact of female CEOs on insurer insolvency risk is moderated by …
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Private Equity and the Resolution of Financial Distress
Hotchkiss, Edith S. - 2020
We examine the role private equity (PE) firms play in the resolution of financial distress using a sample of 2,151 firms that borrow in the leveraged loan market between 1997 and 2010. Controlling for leverage, PE-backed firms are no more likely to default than other leveraged loan borrowers....
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Contracting Externalities and Mandatory Menus in the U.S. Corporate Bankruptcy Code
Bernardo, Antonio E. - 2015
Our paper offers the first justification for the U.S. bankruptcy code, in which firms are not allowed to commit themselves ex-ante in their lending agreements either to (Chapter 7) liquidation or to (Chapter 11) reorganization in case of distress ex-post. If fire-sale liquidation imposes...
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