relationship between banks' risk of failure, market structure, bank ownership, and banks' screening and bankruptcy costs. These … model rationalizes this evidence if both state-owned and foreign banks have either larger screening and/or lower bankruptcy … costs than private domestic banks, banks' differences in market shares, screening or bankruptcy costs are not too large, and …

regulators. Prior research suggests that firms increase their financial leverage, and thus their probability of bankruptcy and … expected bankruptcy costs, in order to mitigate the severity of binding price ceilings. Although financial leverage can be … insurers as well as the probability of bankruptcy, the non-selection probability. …

a hypothesis to explain why Spain has one of the world’s lowest business bankruptcy rates, even during the current … the Spanish bankruptcy system relative to that of an alternative insolvency institution, the mortgage system, and the … unattractiveness of the personal bankruptcy law …

area of corporate insolvency, the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law and the Law on Restructuring of Enterprises are generally …