A popular view of limited liability in financial contracting is that it is the result of societal preferences against escessive penalties. The view of most financial economists is instead that limited liability emerged as an optimal institution when, in the absence of a clear limit on economic...

In the light of increasing household debt, several countries are substantiallyreforming their consumer bankruptcy regulations. This paperfirst classifies the mechanisms triggered by both U.S. and European bankruptcyregulations. Then, I test these mechanisms within a hidden actionmodel. Here, I...

Consumer bankruptcy regulation in the United States as well as in many other countries allow consumers to petition for a partial debt discharge. Usually, a debt release is possiblewhen the debtor behaves in the creditors best interest and after filing for bankruptcy signs over her entire...

Amidst a sharp increase in household debt levels, many countries have substantially reformedtheir consumer bankruptcy regulations. I first classify the mechanisms triggered by current U.S.and European bankruptcy regulations and then evaluate these mechanisms within a hidden actionmodel. I...

A popular view of limited liability in financial contracting is that it is the result of societal preferences against excessive penalties. The view of most financial economists is instead that limited liability emerged as an optimal institution when, in the absence of a clear limit on economic...

Consumer bankruptcy regulation in the United States as well as in many other countries allow consumers to petition for a partial debt discharge. Usually, a debt release is possible when the debtor behaves in the creditors' best interest and after filing for bankruptcy signs over her entire...

Economics and management science share the tradition of ordering risk aversion by fitting the best expected utility (EU) model with a utility function of certain parametric form to individual data, and then using the individual utility curvature as the sole index of risk attitudes. (Cumulative)...

Cumulative prospect theory introduced the weighting of probabilities as an additional component to capture risk attitudes. However, this addition would be a less significant challenge to expected utility theory (EU) if utility curvature and probability weighting showed strong positive...

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