Mikhed, Vyacheslav; Raina, Sahil; Scholnick, Barry; … - 2022
We study how forcing financially distressed consumer debtors to repay a larger fraction of debt can lead them to … traveled farther to find more lenient insolvency professionals who, historically, approved more potentially fraudulent filings …. Finally, we find that those debtors who misreported income had a lower probability of default on their debt repayment plans …