Bankruptcy reform in 2005 eliminated debtors’ ability to discharge private student loan debt in bankruptcy. This law … bankruptcy even if they had sufficient income to service their debt. Using a unique, nationally representative sample of … anonymized credit bureau files, we examine the bankruptcy filing and delinquency rates of private student loan borrowers in …

What are the positive and normative implications of eliminating bankruptcy protection for indebted individuals? Without … bankruptcy protection, creditors can collect on defaulted debt to the extent permitted by wage garnishment laws. The elimination …

bankruptcy filers. In particular, our data allow us to distinguish between Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy filings, to … after bankruptcy filing, most filers have much reduced access to credit in terms of credit limits, and the impact seems to …). Our results, in contrast to prior studies, thus suggest that the current bankruptcy system does not appear to provide much …

mortgages to the current market value of the property for homeowners in Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Strip-down of … mortgages in bankruptcy was proposed as a means of reducing foreclosures during the recent mortgage crisis but was blocked by … lenders. Our goal is to determine whether allowing bankruptcy judges to modify mortgages would have a large adverse impact on …

We build a structural model of Chapter 13 bankruptcy that captures salient features of personal bankruptcy under … Chapter 13. We estimate our model using a novel data set we construct from bankruptcy court dockets recorded in Delaware … 13 outcomes under the restrictions imposed by the bankruptcy law. We use the estimated model to conduct policy …

consumer bankruptcy filers. In particular, the authors’ data allow them to distinguish between Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 … bankruptcy filings, to observe changes in credit demand and credit supply explicitly, and to differentiate existing and new … credit accounts. The paper has four main findings. First, despite speedy recovery in their risk scores after bankruptcy …

countercyclicality of bankruptcy filings found in U.S. data? Yes, it does, but only if we explicitly model recessions as displaying … bankruptcy risk discouraging households from using credit. This finding contradicts the intuition that access to credit helps …

We are the first to examine whether exogenous shocks cause personal bankruptcy through the balance sheet channel and … payments on 200,000 Canadian bankruptcy filings. We find support for the balance sheet channel, in that receipt of the … exogenous cash increases the net balance sheet benefits of bankruptcy (unsecured debt discharged minus liquidated assets forgone …

We are the first to show that the cost of personal bankruptcy filers traveling to their bankruptcy trustees affects … bankruptcy choices. We use detailed balance sheet, income statement, and location data from 400,000 Canadian bankruptcies. To … bankruptcy trustees (while filers interact with trustees, and trustees interact with local government, filers do not interact …