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State and federal bankruptcy laws make exemptions for the family home in personal bankruptcy proceedings. There is considerable heterogeneity across the states in the level of this exemption, and those levels have changed reasonably often since 1978. While exemptions protect debtors ex post...
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By compiling a novel data set from bankruptcy court dockets recorded in Delaware between 2001 and 2002, the authors build and estimate a structural model of Chapter 13 bankruptcy. This allows them to quantify how key debtor characteristics, including whether they are experiencing bankruptcy for...
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This scoping paper outlines credit counselling and debt management structures in the United States and their effectiveness in improving consumers' financial management status. First, various public and private credit counselling systems are explained with a focus on each institution's roles and...
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Bankruptcy in America, in stark contrast to its status in most other countries, typically signifies not a debtor's last gasp but an opportunity to catch one's breath and recoup. Why has the nation's legal system evolved to allow both corporate and individual debtors greater control over their...
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This paper presents new evidence on the importance of insolvency frameworks for private sector debt deleveraging and … for the resolution of non-performing loans (NPL). We construct an aggregate insolvency framework index (IFI), which is …, our results indicate that better insolvency frameworks lead to faster NPL reductions and to lower NPL increases during …
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