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bankruptcy protections. This Article focuses on three of the most important of these issues: the exclusion of brokerage firms … exemption of derivatives from the automatic stay and other basic bankruptcy provisions. In Parts I, II and III of the Article, I … provisions has also raised even more questions, once again most prominently in the Lehman bankruptcy.In the final part of the …
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usually ignored in macroeconomic models even though they are important in real economies. We argue that default and bankruptcy … near the chosen equilibrium. The theory and evidence together reinforce the idea that accounting, bankruptcy and possibly …
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usually ignored in macroeconomic models even though they are important in real economies. We argue that default and bankruptcy … near the chosen equilibrium. The theory and evidence together reinforce the idea that accounting, bankruptcy and possibly …
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macroeconomic models. Our basic argument is that default and bankruptcy laws are required to prevent strategic default, and these … equilibrium. The theory and evidence together reinforce the idea that accounting, bankruptcy and possibly other aspects of social …
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.S. bankruptcy court. The proposed in-court persuasion mechanism reconciles excessive reorganizations of non-viable companies (and … of some non-viable companies, and exclusively management-initiated (i.e., voluntary) bankruptcy filings. This paper … bankruptcy multiple times. …
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macroeconomic models. Our basic argument is that default and bankruptcy laws are required to prevent strategic default, and these … equilibrium. The theory and evidence together reinforce the idea that accounting, bankruptcy and possibly other aspects of social …
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distress under formal bankruptcy as a non-cooperative game between claimants under the supervision of the bankruptcy judge. The … under bankruptcy, the likelihood of liquidation and the renegotiated value of claims. Our quantitative results confirm the … economic intuition that a bankruptcy design must trade-off the initial priority of claims with the viability of reorganized …
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This paper investigates a model of default in financial networks where the decision by one agent on whether or not to default impacts the incentives of other agents to escape default. Agents' payoffs are determined by the clearing mechanism introduced in the seminal contribution of Eisenberg and...
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Brander and Lewis argue in a seminal paper (AER, 1986) that a firm's debt-equity ratio should have important strategic effects on product market competition. We test their model in a duopoly experiment under both, Bertrand and Cournot competition. We find that leverage has strategic effects, but...
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