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Bankruptcy is the legal process whereby financially distressed firms, individuals, and occasionally governments resolve … their debts. The bankruptcy process for firms plays a central role in economics, because competition drives inefficient … corporate bankruptcy is to reduce the cost of default by having a government-sponsored procedure that resolves all debts …
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We examine changes in debt structure when firms experience financial distress. At these points in time, firms refinance and undergo substantial changes in priority structure. Specifically, we find that firms di- versify their priority structure relative to its pre-distress composition. We show,...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the financial positions of many companies. For the next months, a wave of insolvencies, a zombification caused by rescue measures or a debt deleveraging are on the table. Which of the three scenarios will dominate, depends, however, on the efficiency of...
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