This paper analyzes the influence of financial distress on the investment behavior of companies. The analysis includes companies from Germany, Canada, Spain, France, Italy, UK and USA, which cover a wide spectrum of different institutional environments. The methodology used is panel data...

The changes in bankruptcy laws of the most developed countries in the last years, and the differences that remains between them until now, show the absence of a theoretic procedure that allows researchers and practitioners to have an optimal bankruptcy procedure as a benchmark in their studies....