bankruptcy filings have changed throughout the period 2001-2018, which includes the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer … Protection Act (BAPCPA) and the Great Recession. The report considers changes in the attributes of bankruptcy filers by analyzing … credit scores and the amount of debt consumers hold prior to bankruptcy …

This paper studies the optimal determination of bankruptcy exemptions for risk averse borrowers who use unsecured … sufficient to determine whether a bankruptcy exemption level is optimal, or should be increased or decreased. These variables are …’ leverage, the borrowers’ bankruptcy probability, and the change in bankrupt borrowers’ consumption. An application of the …

A book review of a history of bankruptcy in the United States told through an interdisciplinary lens of law, history … and economics. The main contribution of this book is to evaluate changes in federal bankruptcy rates and bankruptcy law in … relation to state collections law. Bankruptcy in America is is the first book to consistently construct and evaluate state …