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Bankruptcy is the legal process whereby financially distressed firms, individuals, and occasionally governments resolve their debts. The bankruptcy process for firms plays a central role in economics, because competition drives inefficient firms out of business, thereby raising the average...
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Bankruptcy is the legal process whereby financially distressed firms, individuals, and occasionally governments resolve their debts. The bankruptcy process for firms plays a central role in economics, because competition drives inefficient firms out of business, thereby raising the average...
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We study the restructuring process of small and medium-sized firms in financial distress. We have a unique dataset with firms in the Netherlands that are guided in their restructuring effort by banks. Part of our dataset consists of firms that successfully restructure their operations and...
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reorganization for a sample of Taiwanese firms in default. We find that bank relationships significantly influence the likelihood and … duration of a firm's decision on filing for reorganization. Firms with strong bank relationships exhibit significantly … decreased likelihood of filing for reorganization and increased length of time needed for making the decision. The findings …
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A solid and sound bankruptcy system is a crucial pillar that is needed to sustain the stability of any competitive, free-market economy and to protect any highly-developed financial market from serious crashes. When faced with the demands of creditor banks, a firm in financial distress will...
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We study the restructuring process of small and medium-sized firms in financial distress. We have a unique dataset with firms in the Netherlands that are guided in their restructuring effort by banks. Part of our dataset consists of firms that successfully restructure their operations and...
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This paper analyzes the reorganization procedure introduced into the Chinese bankruptcy system in 2007. It shows that … managers devote more effort during the reorganization than before the bankruptcy when the emergence value of the bankrupt firm … necessarily lower than that under the old law. These results call attention to the potential costs of the reorganization procedure. …
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