The Bankruptcy Code accords much more favorable treatment to lessors than to secured lenders, but legal scholars have …'s other creditors. By allowing bankruptcy courts to alter the terms of secured loans, the Bankruptcy Code limits (but does not … Bankruptcy Code does not authorize courts to alter the terms of such transactions …

Judicial decisions in bankruptcy are often influenced by the goal of preserving employment. Using the text of judicial …

PurposeThis paper aims to study the effect of the establishment of bankruptcy courts on bond issuance market. This … paper helps to predict that the introduction of bankruptcy courts in China can mitigate price distortions caused by the … exploits the staggered introduction of bankruptcy courts across cities to implement a differences-in-differences strategy on …

; asymmetric information ; firms' inter-temporal choice ; banks ; financial institutions …

bankruptcy filings spanning a banking-sector reform that deregulated bank entry across different regions of India. We find that … increased banking competition is associated with more firms seeking a stay on assets, a decline in bankruptcy duration, and a …

products and the timeliness of their rating changes for financial institutions hit hard by the 2007 to 2009 crisis. While the … paid to the characteristics of ratings for financial institutions. This paper seeks to fill that gap by examining Standard … discrepancy in rating is most pronounced for deposit taking institutions. Our results are robust to different definitions of …