For many private firms, relationship lending is the only viable form of outside financing. Relationship lending typically relies on intertemporal loan pricing: losses from early years are recovered by information rents in later years, which stem from the lender's private information regarding...

Im Schrifttum werden Kreditsicherheiten vorwiegend positiv beurteilt, gerade weil sie Anreizprobleme entschärfen. Kreditsicherheiten können aber auch Anreizprobleme hervorrufen, wenn es zwei unterschiedliche Gläubigerparteien gibt, etwa Banken und Lieferanten. Dieser Beitrag präsentiert ein...

Consumer bankruptcy regulation in the United States as well as in many other countries allow consumers to petition for a partial debt discharge. Usually, a debt release is possible when the debtor behaves in the creditors’ best interest and after filing for bankruptcy signs over her entire...