We build a structural model of Chapter 13 bankruptcy that captures salient features of personal bankruptcy under … Chapter 13. We estimate our model using a novel data set we construct from bankruptcy court dockets recorded in Delaware … between 2001 and 2002. Our estimation results highlight the importance of debtor’s choice of repayment plan length on Chapter …

, 2005. ; The new legislation made sweeping changes to existing bankruptcy law, and the main result appears to be that it …New provisions under bankruptcy law became effective on October 17, 2005. The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer …

The object of this chapter is to explain the decline of the law of contract in matter of bankruptcy. The historical … evolution of the law of bankruptcy shows that this decline is gone by three phases : the phase of the natural law based on the … this decline has been begun approach by the growth of the judicial machine in matter of bankruptcy and then by the climbing …

In this article, we develop the various theories which explain the determinants of the bankruptcy of the entrepreneur …, the bad luck and the capacity to evaluate the risk of bankruptcy of the entrepreneur. We wonder on the economic bases of …

This paper is a critical review of the variable selection methods used to build empirical bankruptcy prediction models … thus the accuracy of the predictions. We first analyze those variables that are considered the best bankruptcy predictors …

two rules: the rule of the discharge allowing to exempt the debtor in case of failure and the rule of obligation of … repayment of the debts by the debtor. Several theoretical arguments are divided as for the efficiency of these rules. This …

Abstract Medical bankruptcy was at the heart of the health care reform debate. According to Himmelstein et al. (2009 … bankruptcy rate. We find that (i) the reform fails to address the bankruptcy problem as it cuts the bankruptcy rate by only 0 ….06 percentage point to 0.94 percent and the medical bankruptcy rate by 0.07 percentage point to 0.70 percent; (ii) the reform …

shocks either in the interbank market or by using a costly bankruptcy procedure, and depositors trade in the asset market …