You may or may not know that there are different types of bankruptcy filings. These types are called chapters because they refer to different chapters in the United States Bankruptcy Code. Each of these chapters allow for different types of debt relief for different types of individuals and entit...
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Personal Bankruptcy Filings Hit Record; Easy Credit Blamed, Congress May ActPeter PaeStephanie Stoughton
This paper utilizes the population of personal bankruptcy filers in the state of Delaware during 2003 and finds that household expenditures on durable consumption goods, such as houses and automobiles, contribute significantly to personal bankruptcy filings. Medical conditions also lead to personal bankrupt...
Personal, Business Bankruptcy Filings DeclineJonathan D. Glater
This dissertation examines the effect of government transfer programs and the bankruptcy laws on the number of personal bankruptcy filings. Both the transfer programs and bankruptcy provide income- and wealth-insurance for households. A primary contribution of this dissertation is the effect of these tr...
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personal bankruptcy filings of the last fifteen years has focused attention on the wide disparities between different states' personal bankruptcy exemptions. These differences have been criticized both on the grounds of equity and also because they provide an incentive to move to a state with a ...
Exploiting arguably exogenous cross-state variation in the generosity of bankruptcy law (exemption limits) prior to the Act, I find that households' access to credit increased significantly more in states with higher exemption limits, where lenders were more exposed to losses from bankruptcy filings....
personal bankruptcy filings of the last fifteen years has focused attention on the wide disparities between different states'... R Elul,N Subramanian - 《Journal of Financial Services Research》 被引量: 125发表: 2002年 CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY AND CHAPTER CHOICE: STATE PANEL EVIDENCE for bankruptcy ...