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Weak creditor rights introduce contracting frictions and magnify conflicts of interest between borrowers and creditors. We examine the effects of creditor rights on the sensitivity of bank lending terms to aggregate relative to firm-specific information. We formulate two competing hypotheses. On...
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bankruptcy filings spanning a banking-sector reform that deregulated bank entry across different regions of India. We find that …
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We develop hypotheses regarding the association between two types of creditor rights and bank loan losses. Contrary to prior research conclusions, bank lending risk is negatively associated with both restrictions on reorganization and the secured creditor being paid first. Using accounting...
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We investigate the role of the judicial system on whether or not the firms obtain the credit they applied for, by looking at the strength of the creditor protection, the strength of property rights, the time for resolving a dispute, its costs and the number of procedures the plaintiff faces. We...
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Using the state-level adoption of anti-recharacterization laws (ARLs), this paper examines how strengthening the rights of some creditors affects other creditors’ claims. The adoption of an ARL significantly increases the rights of securitization creditors by denying bankruptcy court judges’...
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In an attempt to match US bankruptcy law, many European countries have reformed their insolvency laws towards a regime … difference-in-differences analysis around eight insolvency reforms in 15 European countries, this paper finds a relative increase …. Overall, the results are consistent with the view that creditors may be negatively affected by insolvency law reforms oriented …
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Using a large sample of private debt renegotiations from 1996 to 2011, we report that, even in the absence of any covenant violation, debt covenants are frequently renegotiated. These renegotiations primarily relax existing restrictions and result in economically large changes in existing...
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