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During the recent crisis, lags in the transmission mechanism of economic shocks, together with monetary and fiscal policy, made it difficult to assess the evolving dynamics of creditworthiness. As such, developments in financial markets became a key guide for investors and policymakers in...
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bankruptcy trustee, and (2) becoming a client of a not-for-profit credit counselling agency. Each of these options is regulated …
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We propose a parsimonious model with adverse selection where delinquency, renegotiation, and bankruptcy all occur in … equilibrium as a result of a simple screening mechanism. A borrower has private information about her cost of bankruptcy, and a …, delinquency leads to bankruptcy. We apply the model to analyze effects of a government intervention in debt restructuring. We show …
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This paper uses the framework of an OLG economy with three-period lived agents in which a durable good serves as collateral for loans, to study the effect of an unanticipated income shock when the economy is in a steady state equilibrium. We focus on the consequence of default on loans when the...
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Eight years have elapsed since China enacted its first market-oriented bankruptcy statute in 2006. This article will … attempt to make an evaluation of Chinese bankruptcy law in theory and practice with suggestions for its future reform. In … order to reveal the theoretical flaws of Chinese bankruptcy law, the article will evaluate the bankruptcy provisions against …
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Panageas' "Optimal taxation in the presence of bailouts" provides a model where labor income taxation is used to finance bailouts and bailouts are always optimal. Labor income taxes are countercyclical: they are lower in economic downturns to alleviate the stress on the financial sector and...
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We estimate the effect of college education on business survival using the NLSY79. The endogeneity of both education and business ownership is accounted for by a competing risks duration model augmented with a college selection equation. Contrary to the previous literature, we find no effect of...
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We examine whether investor protection affects capital markets in terms of the development of corporate bond markets versus that of equity markets. Using a dataset of 42 countries, we show that in countries with stronger creditor rights, corporate bond markets are more developed than equity...
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I develop a model in which the ability to repay a loan is private information that can only be verified by the bank at some costs, which can be recovered from the borrower if it has reported untruthfully. The bank will optimize the resources it spends on this auditing of borrowers and the...
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Each year, a quarter of a million student loan debtors file for bankruptcy. Of those, fewer than three hundred … titular Student Loan Bankruptcy Gap, and it is a phenomenon that is unprecedented in the law.Drawing upon an original dataset … of nearly five hundred adversary proceedings, this Article examines three key facets of the Student Loan Bankruptcy Gap …
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