This article reviews developments concerning how firms, their stakeholders or bankruptcy courts may use auctions to resolve financial and economic distress. In our analysis, we give special attention to the two major following questions. First, what are the comparative advantages and limits of...

The legal origin influences the development of the financial system which impacts on the long run economic growth. So, we would like to conclude on the superiority of a special legal tradition or the bank based/market based system. However, the architecture of the financial system is neutral. It...

Nous étudions dans cet article deux questions : les jeunes entreprises présentent-elles des caractéristiques distinctes selon l'origine de la création et ces caractéristiques induisent-elles des performances économiques et financières différentes ? L'enrichissement du fichier SINE-94 par...

We study the French dilemma associated with court administered resolution of corporate financial distress of firms, in which bankruptcy courts have to combine both social efficiency (maintaining employment) and ex post financial efficiency (determining the best issue for financial distress,...

Cet article soulève deux questions : les jeunes entreprises pérennes (dont l’activité dure au moins cinq ans, soit quatre publications de comptes) présentent-elles des caractéristiques distinctes selon l’origine de la création et ces caractéristiques induisent-elles des performances...

The paper analyzes the characteristics of bankruptcy procedures that may impact on creditors’ recoveries. We propose 132 legal indexes accounting for the main functions of bankruptcy codes: namely, the accessibility of the procedures, their ability to disclose information, the protection of...