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Race and Bankruptcy : Explaining Racial Disparities in Consumer Bankruptcy

Morrison, Edward R. - 2019

African American bankruptcy filers are more likely to select Chapter 13 than other debtors, who opt instead for Chapter 7, which has higher success rates and lower attorney fees. Prior scholarship blames racial discrimination by bankruptcy attorneys. We present an alternative explanation:...

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Creditor Rights and Legal Transaction Costs

Aggarwal, Dhruv - 2023

I estimate the relationship between increased creditor rights and legal expenditures of debtor corporations by analyzing the effect of a major securitization law in India allowing secured creditors to seize collateral. While the law decreased spending on legal proceedings commonly used by firms...

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The race war : the world-wide conflict of races

Segal, Ronald - 1967

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The Determinants of Professional Fees in Large Bankruptcy Reorganization Cases

LoPucki, Lynn M.; Doherty, Joseph W. - 2004

This article presents the findings of an empirical study of professional fee and expense awards by United States Bankruptcy Courts in 48 large public company bankruptcy cases concluded from 1998 through the first half of 2002. Data was gathered from fee applications and orders in the courts...

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Corporate Insolvency and Self-Help in Six Asian Legal Systems

Tomasic, Roman - 2010

dealing with corporate debt or corporate insolvency have also been introduced or modernised. A seeming paradox is presented by … this apparent commitment to the rule of law as is evident from the pattern of low usage of insolvency laws as well as … concerted attempts by corporate debtors and their creditors to resolve insolvency problems without resort to the formal legal …

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Insolvency in Real Estate : A Difficult Balancing Act

Khare, Uday - 2021

In 2016, India enacted the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), a landmark legislation which reconceptualized the … existing insolvency and bankruptcy regime in India. The IBC sought to overhaul an inefficient bankruptcy framework by … the insolvency resolution process. One of the significant challenges faced under the new legal regime were insolvencies of …

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Bankruptcy Hardball

Ellias, Jared A. - 2020

On the eve of the financial crisis, a series of Delaware court decisions added up to a radical change in law: Creditors would no longer have the kind of common law protections from opportunism that helped protect their bargain for the better part of two centuries. In this Article, we argue that...

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A Note to Congress-Amend Section 546(e) of the Bankruptcy Code to Harmonize the Underlying Policies of Fraudulent Conveyance Law and Protection of the Financial Markets

Marchetti, Peter - 2018

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Bankruptcy Process for Sale

Ayotte, Kenneth Michael - 2020

The lenders that fund Chapter 11 reorganizations exert significant influence over the bankruptcy process through the contract associated with the debtor-in-possession (“DIP”) loan. In this Article, we study a large sample of DIP loan contracts and document a trend: over the past three...

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The Costs of Chapter 11 in Context : American and Dutch Business Bankruptcy

Couwenberg, Oscar - 2013

In this paper we adopt a new approach to the issue and contextualize the cost of chapter 11 by comparison to the costs of business bankruptcy in the Netherlands. Using unique data-sets that each author has developed in connection with other projects, we match a group of comparable cases from...

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