individuals may file for bankruptcy or default on their mortgage. Uncertainty in the model is driven by house price shocks …, education specific productivity shocks, and catastrophic consumption events, while bankruptcy is governed by the basic … Bankruptcy policy. …

bankruptcy procedure is triggered off. This arbitration depends on the legal context and, more specifically, on the national … bankruptcy code. No study has been done on the French Civil Law. Yet, this legal system has inspired other important legislations … inclination for liquidation, collaterals may increase the occurrence of bankruptcy, provided the law facilitates such liquidation …

individuals may file for bankruptcy or default on their mortgage. Uncertainty in the model is driven by house price shocks …, education specific productivity shocks, and catastrophic consumption events, while bankruptcy is governed by the basic … Bankruptcy policy. …

The aim of this paper is to provide new evidence on the value-creation process taking place in bankruptcy procedures … extent the debtor’s value can be preserved under bankruptcy by analyzing the recovery rates in France, Germany, and the … United Kingdom. We use a unique European sample of 900 corporate bankruptcy files that were manually collected in commercial …

This research investigates how bankruptcy law influences the design of debt contracts and the investment choice through … sanctions are implemented in case of costly bankruptcy only. This way of resolving financial distress can be avoided yet, if a … private agreement is achieved. First, – when sanctions are high – we show that costly bankruptcy may be preferred by honest …

Literature on ex-ante efficiency of bankruptcy procedures investigates how these procedures influence the behavior of … managers and creditors. We extend this literature by explaining how bankruptcy law can influence the design of debt contracts …

which bankruptcy courts have to combine both social efficiency (maintaining employment) and ex post financial efficiency … as a going concern or liquidation). Addressing this dilemma, we discuss the determinants of bankruptcy courts’ selection … employment by facilitating continuation and reducing the domino effects of bankruptcy. (2) the courts’ choice between rival …

bankruptcy models and provide a connection between this bankruptcy law puzzle and the variables depicting the governance of … national bankruptcy law, and (2) the risks associated with each bankruptcy model according to the economic literature on … bankruptcy law. Our final aim is to test whether the various bankruptcy models detailed in the paper perform in separate economic …