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example, places where bankruptcy resolution is more difficult and/or takes longer) see a greater dependence on "stable" real …
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effect of bankruptcy and foreclosure laws on fluctuations in TFP through their effect on credit market frictions …
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Using U.S. Census firm-worker data, I document that firms' financial distress has an economically important effect on employee departures to entrepreneurship. The impact is amplified in the high-tech and service sectors, where employees are key assets. In states with enforceable noncompete...
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Using U.S. Census firm-worker data, I document that firms' financial distress has an economically important effect on employee departures to entrepreneurship. The impact is amplified in the high-tech and service sectors, where employees are key assets. In states with enforceable noncompete...
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Productivity growth is slowing down among OECD countries, coupled with increased misallocation of resources. A recent strand of literature focuses on the role of non-viable firms (“zombie firms”) to explain these developments. Using a rich firm-level dataset for one of the OECD countries...
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The lenders that fund Chapter 11 reorganizations exert significant influence over the bankruptcy process through the … process. When managers sell control over the bankruptcy case to a subset of the creditors in exchange for compensation, we … call this transaction a “bankruptcy process sale.” We model two situations where process sales raise bankruptcy policy …
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Assuming benevolent managers, the debt-overhang problem suggests that distressed firms generally refrain from issuing equity. In contrast, agency theory predicts that distressed firm managers have strong self-interests to finance even deteriorating projects through equity issuance. This paper...
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When contemplating Chapter 11, firms often need to seek financing for their continuing operations in bankruptcy …. Because such financing would otherwise be hard to find, the Bankruptcy Code authorizes debtors to offer sweeteners to debtor … important implications for bankruptcy policymakers and judges struggling to evaluate whether extraordinary DIP lending …
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This paper provides new evidence on the roles and strategies adopted by different types of debtor-in-possession (DIP) lenders: “loan-to-loan” (LTL) lenders — prepetition secured bank lenders providing DIP financing, and “loan-to-own” (LTO) lenders — activist investors (i.e., hedge...
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example, places where bankruptcy resolution is more difficult and/or takes longer) see a greater dependence on “stable” real …
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