Hainz, Christa - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2005
The number of firm bankruptcies is surprisingly low in economies with poor institutions. We study a model of bank …-firm relationship and show that the bank?s decision to liquidate bad firms has two opposing effects. First, the bank receives a payoff …. We show that institutions must improve significantly in order to yield a stable equilibrium in which the optimal number …