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IMF's assistance: Devil's kiss or guardian angel? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper contributes to the debate on the efficacy of IMF's catalytic finance in preventing financial crises. Extending Morris and Shin (2006), we consider that the IMF's intervention policy usually exerts a signaling effect on private creditors and ...
Brandes, Julia, Schüle, Tobias
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Chapter 13 Outcomes

open access: yesJournal of Empirical Legal Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Roughly 40% of bankrupt consumers file under Chapter 13. However, scholars have consistently criticized the chapter, sometimes calling for its elimination. Much of this criticism is motivated by the longstanding statistic that only one‐third of Chapter 13 debtors obtain a discharge.
Richard M. Hynes, Nathaniel Pattison
wiley   +1 more source

The Failed Reform: Congressional Crackdown on Repeat Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Filers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
After decades of lobbying to “get tough” on bankruptcy repeat filers, Congress passed the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA).
Greene, Sara Sternberg
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You are Not a Loan: A Debtors Movement

open access: yesCulture Unbound, 2014
Written from the participant perspective of the author, the article documents the debt resistance movement that is one of the enduring offshoots of Occupy Wall Street. Addressing the household debt crisis in the wake of the financial crash, it focuses in particular on student debt, approaching an aggregate 1.2 trillion in the U.S., with defaulters ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Does the linguistic complexity of annual reports affect the corporate leasing decision?

open access: yesJournal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Using a sample of 94,697 US firm‐year observations from 1994 to 2017, we document that annual report complexity is positively and significantly associated with a firm's operating lease ratio. In addition, we find that financially constrained and weakly governed firms with complex financial reports lease more. Finally, by employing a difference‐
Danlin Chi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preserving Value in the Post-BAPCPA Era — An Empirical Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Through the use of a multivariate regression model, this article studies the effect on debtor reorganization values of the shortened reorganization timeframe imposed by the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (“BAPCPA”).
Teloni, Foteini
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