. Following bankruptcy reform, wealthier households under 50 reduced their arrears between 2004 and 2007. During the sub …

When a new act on bankruptcy law entered into force on 1 January 2016, it introduced changes in the scope of personal … bankruptcy. The article points to the economic aspects of legal solutions provided for in the new regulation for indebted natural … persons, significant on a micro and macro scale. At the same time, it points to the problems in the personal bankruptcy …

limits and more lenient bankruptcy - affected intergenerational mobility. Surprisingly, we find that the democratization of … bankruptcy policy lowers mobility since low-income households dissave, hit their constraints more often, and reduce investments … in their children. Quantitatively, the democratization of credit is dominated by more lenient bankruptcy policy and so …

Increasing personal bankruptcy protection raises consumers' desire to borrow and lenders' cost of extending credit; the … impact on equilibrium borrowing is ambiguous. Using bankruptcy protection changes between 1999 and 2005 across U.S. states …