Blankart, Charles B.; Ehmke, David Christoph - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 63 (2014) 2, pp. 173-184
Credit is the backbone of capitalism because credit allows allocating resources efficiently to economic activities. For the case of distress, a bankruptcy regime is established which allows reviving viable but financially distressed businesses and to liquidate structurally distressed businesses...