The anticipation of a future bailout of distressed firms worsens ex ante adverse selection, causing a market freeze at present and inviting government intervention ("bailout trap"). When firms of heterogenous qualities raise financing, high-quality firms are willing to bear adverse selection...

The development landscape has never been static but in these times of uncertainty and insecurity, we are witnessing ever more profound shifts in global relations, inequalities, and forms of exclusion. Dominant trajectories and paths of ‘development’ have led the world to the brink of...

The 2023 ECB Banking Supervision Research Conference (in hybrid format) will provide a forum to discuss these themes, aiming at building bridges between supervisory policies and practices on the one hand and academia on the other hand. Topics: - Challenges and opportunities for of the future...

Die Jahrestagung des Deutschen Vereins für Versicherungswissenschaft e.V. wird derzeit als Präsenzveranstaltung in Coburg mit hybriden Veranstaltungsteilen geplant. Das Veranstaltungsformat wird je nach Pandemielage, auch kurzfristig, angepasst. Auf der Jahrestagung werden Forschungsarbeiten...

We welcome submissions of ALL papers in development economics, and we recognise that not every paper will fit exactly into one of the following themes: Agriculture; Firms; Fiscal and Monetary Policy; Health and Education; Households, Inequality, and Poverty; Labour; Macro Productivity; Natural...

Upon assuming control of Baoshang Bank, Chinese bank regulators announced that they would eschew bailing out large creditors of this city-level distressed bank in full. This paper investigates the consequences of this unexpected deviation from the long-standing full bailout policy. Employing a...

We estimate empirically the impact of the insolvency and bankruptcy code (IBC) on corporate leverage in India. The analysis builds on the Prowess database. For the estimations we use the difference in differences approach, where listed firms are used as the control group. We find that the IBC...