By Robert K. Rasmussen (University of Southern California Gould School of Law) It is common to observe that investors receive both …
Consumer Response to Chapter 11 Bankruptcy: Negative Demand Spillover to Competitors
By O. Cem Ozturk (Georgia Institute of Technology - Scheller College of Business), Pradeep K. Chintagunta (University of Chicago), …
How Much Value Was Destroyed by the Lehman Bankruptcy?
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Liberty Street Economics Blog has run a series of five posts seeking to estimate the total …
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Debt Restructuring: When Do Loan and Bond Prepayments Pay Off?
By Edwin Fischer and Ines Wöckl (University of Graz) Many debtholders, whether private households, companies, or states, are …
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Insider Trading: Are Insolvent Firms Different?
By Andrew Verstein (Wake Forest University School of Law) Are insolvent firms different from solvent firms with respect to insider …
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How Specialized Courts Changed the Chinese Bankruptcy System
By Bo Li (Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance) and Jacopo Ponticelli (Kellogg School of Management - Department of …
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Piercing the Corporate Veil: Historical, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives
By Cheng-Han Tan, Jiangyu Wang, Christian Hofmann (National University of Singapore Law School) Corporate personality is not …
Director Bankruptcy Experience and Corporate Risk Taking
By Radhakrishnan Gopalan (Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School), Todd A. Gormley (Washington …
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Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Bankruptcy for Banks and Proposed Chapter 14
On November 13, 2018, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on “Big Bank Bankruptcy: 10 Years After Lehman Brothers,” in …
Regulating Bankruptcy Bonuses
By Jared Ellias (University of California, Hastings) In 2005, the perception that wealthy executives were being rewarded for …
Bankruptcy for Banks: A Tribute (and Little Plea) to Jay Westbrook
By David A. Skeel, Jr. (University of Pennsylvania Law School) Over the past several years, Congress has considered various …
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Secured Credit and Effective Entity Priority
By Christopher W. Frost (University of Kentucky - College of Law) The historical and doctrinal development of secured transactions …
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Creditor Governance
By William R. McCumber (College of Business, Louisiana Tech University) and Tomas Jandik (Sam M. Walton College of Business, …
A New Approach to Executory Contracts
By John A. E. Pottow (University of Michigan Law School) Few bankruptcy topics have bedeviled courts—and busied commentators—as …
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The Secret Life of Priority: Corporate Reorganization After Jevic, 93 WASH L. REV. 631 (2018)
By Jonathan C. Lipson (Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law) The Supreme Court’s 2017 decision in Czyzewski v. Jevic …
Non-Debtor Substantive Consolidation: Do Recent Cases Signal a Judicial Preference for State Law Claims?
By Charles W. Azano (Mintz Levin). Jurisprudence varies on whether bankruptcy courts have the power to consolidate a bankruptcy …
Bankruptcy Claims Trading
By Jared A. Ellias (University of California, Hastings) Over the past twenty years, a robust secondary market has emerged in the …
Repo Markets Across the Atlantic: Similar but Unalike
By Songjiwen Wu (University of Heidelberg) and Hossein Nabilou (Universite du Luxembourg - Faculty of Law, Economics and …
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Bankruptcy Law as a Balancing System – Lessons from a Comparative Analysis of the Interaction Between Labor and Bankruptcy Laws
By Omer Kimhi (Haifa University Faculty of Law) and Arno Doebert (Independent) The rehabilitation of distressed corporations often …
Valuation Disputes in Corporate Bankruptcy
Kenneth Ayotte (U.C. Berkeley School of Law); Edward R. Morrison (Columbia Law School) In bankruptcy, valuation drives disputes. …
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