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Does Resolution Time Really Matter? Evidence From Chapter 11 Firms

open access: yesFinancial Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how resolution time affects firms under Chapter 11 protection. We find a robust negative association between a firm's resolution time and its probability of emergence, using several controls for endogeneity. The probability of emergence reduces by 0.4% for each month (or 4.8% per year) spent in bankruptcy.
Ying Kai Yap   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Debt for nature swaps [PDF]

open access: yes
Debt for nature swaps involve the exchange of a debtor country's external obligation for that country's agreement to use local currency instruments to support a specific environmental project, such as development of conservation management plans ...
Occhiolini, Michael
core  

A Conversation With David Bellhouse

open access: yesInternational Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic Investment in a Debt Bargaining Framework [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper analyzes the strategic role of investment from a debtor country's perspective. The framework is one in which, if the debtor country is unable to meet debt obligations, a bargaining regime determines the amount of debt repayment. In the context
Eduardo R. Borensztein, Joshua Aizenman
core  

Leviathans and Liberation: Did Whaling Contribute to the Decline of Slavery?

open access: yesInternational Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We test the hypothesis slavery started declining in the United States not due to fossil fuel‐driven industrialization but the exploitation of the bioenergy reserves of the world's largest animals. We predict the population in slavery in US states from 1790 to 1840 as a function of the recorded whaling harvest.
Topher L. McDougal   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Note on the Equivalence between Contractual and Tort Liability [PDF]

open access: yes
The aim of this paper is to conciliate some conclusions of the economic theories of breach of contract and tort law. The main result is that the two efficient alternatives that tort law identifies (negligence rule and strict liability with a defense of ...
Germán Coloma, Sergio Pernice
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Debtor relationships in the public assistance programs of the states [PDF]

open access: yes, 1940
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 1940In general no arbitrarily established income line can be drawn in order to determine when, and to what extent, a legally responsible relative should be required to give to a needy recipient.
Guild, Charles James
core   +1 more source

Ingrădiri ale dreptelui la libera circulaţie in procedura de executare silită (III) [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Institutului Naţional de Justiţie, 2017
In this study, it is noted that the disposition of forced bringing the debtor also may cause restrictions to the freedom of movement in enforcement proceedings.
Visterniceanu Dumitru, Reniţă Gheorghe
doaj  

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