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Because corporate limited liability protects founder's personal assets, creditors often require founders of new, small and risky firms to contract around limited liability by pledging their personal assets as collateral for loans to their firms. This makes personal bankruptcy law (PBL) relevant...
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Two recent papers examine the impact of corporate bankruptcy laws on new business start-ups in 29 countries over 1990 - 2008 (Peng et al., 2010; Lee et al., 2010). In this commentary, I briefly point out two significant issues which future researchers might want to consider. First, several countries...
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We conjecture that angel investment in entrepreneurial firms depends on two types of bankruptcy laws around the world. Corporate bankruptcy laws impact investor terms and incentives to finance risky entrepreneurs, particularly given reforms that brought about a time-efficient, simplified, and...
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In this paper we study the political and economic determinants of US states' choices of homestead exemptions. We develop a political economy model in which homestead exemptions are ex-post beneficial to borrowers who default (because they shield some of their wealth from creditors) but ex-ante...
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Education has already been given the authority “compromise, waive, or release” its claims against students, and nothing under …
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For a long time, the European insolvency laws have been considered as country-specific regulations, entirely focused on … supranational legal sources. But the European Union (E.U.) law has gradually modified the approach to insolvency proceedings. The E ….U. approach to the harmonization of national laws on insolvency proceedings has been twofold. Initially, the E.U. legislature has …
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also highlighted the importance of insolvency systems to resolve corporate sector financial distress. The literature and … investigate the effects of specific design features of insolvency regimes in relation to the quality of the countries' overall … system. These findings suggest that there are important incentive effects of insolvency systems encouraging less risky …
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