While integration policies typically focus on labor market entry, we present evidence showing that immigrants from low‐income countries tend to have more precarious jobs, and face more severe consequences of job loss, than natives. For immigrant workers in the Norwegian private sector, the...

Entrepreneurial Failure; Startup Failure; New Venture Failure; Competence- based Theory of the Firm; Path theory; Case-study Research. - Despite the huge number of startups staying behind the growth and value expectations of the venture-capital investor, there is still no profound understanding and...

Insolvency systems play a crucial role in protection of creditor rights, yet micro-level empirical evidence on the functioning of insolvency regimes worldwide is sparse. We investigate whether creditors' recovery of outstanding claims, a measure of ex-post efficiency of an insolvency regime,...

Using German survey data, we investigate the relationship between involuntary job loss and regional mobility. Our results show that job loss has a strong positive effect on the propensity to relocate. We also analyze whether the high and persistent earnings losses of displaced workers can in...

Using German survey data, we investigate the relationship between involuntary job loss and regional mobility. Our results show that job loss has a strong positive effect on the propensity to relocate. We also analyze whether the high and persistent earnings losses of displaced workers can in...

This paper incorporates risk-based margin requirements into portfolio liquidation procedures in a novel fashion. The approach is analytic and, as a result, more efficient than conventional numerical liquidation methods. The margin requirement calculation is a self-contained inner optimization...

Acknowledgments -- Legal outline of business activity in Russia -- Concept and types of corporate business entities in Russia RUSSIA -- Foundation of a corporate business entity -- Starting a corporate business entity -- Legal aspects of the corporate governance and its role in business...

Taxation of C corporations -- Funding corporations -- Transfers to a corporation -- Dividend distributions -- Redemption distributions -- Introduction to reorganizations -- Acquisitive reorganizations -- E and F reorganizations -- Divisive reorganizations; Section 355 -- Liquidations --...

We study the competitive effects of five liquidations and six mergers in the domestic U.S. airline industry between 1995 and 2010. Applying fixed effects regression models we find that route exits due to liquidation lead to substantially larger price increases than mergerrelated exits. Within...

It is well documented that displaced workers suffer severe earnings losses, but not why this is so. One reason may be that workers are unable or unwilling to move to regions with better employment opportunities. We study this and find that job displacement increases regional mobility but,...

Bei der Abwicklung schwebender Verträge in der Insolvenz gibt es ein Bewertungsproblem. Der Insolvenzverwalter hat bei der Wahl zwischen der Annahme und Ablehnung eines Vertrages Schwierigkeiten, den durch Vertragsablehnung entstehenden Schadenersatzanspruch richtig zu berücksichtigen. Es...

Wissenschaftliche Analysen zum Thema Marktaustritte von Unternehmen befassen sich aufgrund der Verfügbarkeit amtlicher Daten in vielen Fällen mit Unternehmensinsolvenzen. Die weitaus größere Gruppe von Marktaustritten besteht allerdings aus so genannten freiwilligen Schließungen.

We present a novel theory to explain the puzzling issue regarding why certain firms in financial distress, that must renegotiate their debt prefer a formal bankruptcy procedure, which is more costly, over direct negotiations with their debtholders. Specifically, we show that claimholders’...

The recent financial and economic crisis has brought back the attention to studying the characteristics of surviving firms and those exiting the market. Among these characteristics the access to finance has received large attention, since the economic crisis decreased the availability of finance...

The economic deficit registered by almost all the countries in the world, the extension above expectations of the economic and financial downfall, the disruption or even collapse of some markets have compelled companies to leave their expectant position. The accrual of liabilities has become the...

This study is dedicated to an important aspect of the long-run performance of firms, namely their survival under rapidly changing conditions in a transition economy. The analysis is focused on the question of whether privatization and ownership structure have affected the likelihood of...

In this paper we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displace- ment on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using an instru- mental variables approach we show that unemployment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of...