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Tenancy by the entirety and the value of wealth insurance for entrepreneurs
Traczynski, Jeffrey - 2020
This paper explores the willingness of entrepreneurs to pay for wealth insurance to protect personal assets in case of business failure and the impact of this strategy on small business operation decisions. I show that antidiscrimination laws allow married firm owners in half of U.S. states to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203405
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Tenancy by the Entirety and the Value of Wealth Insurance for Entrepreneurs
Traczynski, Jeffrey - 2020
This paper explores the willingness of entrepreneurs to pay for wealth insurance to protect personal assets in case of business failure and the impact of this strategy on small business operation decisions. I show that antidiscrimination laws allow married firm owners in half of U.S. states to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835876
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Bankruptcy Law and Entrepreneurship
Armour, John; Cumming, Douglas J. - 2008
initiatives both in the UK and at EU level have sought to promote entrepreneurship by reducing the harshness of the consequences … entrepreneurship using data on self employment over 16 years (1990-2005) and 15 countries in Europe and North America. We compile new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063578
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Consumer Bankruptcy Should Be Increasingly Irrelevant--Why Isn't It?
Foohey, Pamela - 2020
This symposium piece is a response to Professor Nathalie Martin's Bringing Relevance Back to Consumer Bankruptcy. This response overviews the place consumer bankruptcy presently occupies in the United States. In doing so, it details why consumer bankruptcy remains relevant in the face of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827179
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Access to Consumer Bankruptcy
Foohey, Pamela - 2018
This essay examines the state of access to justice in the context of consumer bankruptcy from two vantage points: (1) how people decide that their money problems are legal problems addressable by filing bankruptcy; and (2) the barriers people face in using the consumer bankruptcy system. To shed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916389
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Business Creation, Incorporation, and the Role of Personal Bankruptcy Protection : Evidence from the BAPCPA
Ribas, Rafael P. - 2019
bankruptcy codes. In theory, individual debtor protection might either affect entrepreneurship or just prevent the incorporation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862022
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The Impact of Personal Bankruptcy Law on Entrepreneurship
Jia, Ye (George) - 2010
Limited personal liability has long been thought to promote entrepreneurship by providing partial insurance through … entrepreneurship, I study a life cycle model where households choose between running a risky business and working. Households in the … entrepreneurial ability from entering entrepreneurship, while variations in bankruptcy systems have negligible effects on higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136476
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Measuring the Effect of Bankruptcy Laws on Entrepreneurship Across Countries
Cumming, Douglas J. - 2011
entrepreneurship to personal bankruptcy law …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117667
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Bankruptcy Law and Entrepreneurship
Armour, John; Cumming, Douglas - ESRC Centre for Business Research - 2005
initiatives both in the UK and at EU level have sought to promote entrepreneurship by reducing the harshness of the consequences … question empirically. We investigate the link between bankruptcy and entrepreneurship using data on self employment over 13 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005549381
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The impact of insolvency laws on venture capital
Bhatia, Jai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The venture capital (VC) industry supports innovation in an economy, and has seen much success over the last few years. However, with the inherent risk in any start-up business, the venture capitalist is bound to see some failures. This paper explores the effects of corporate and personal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562618