Court Enforcement and Firm Productivity: Evidence from a Bankruptcy Reform in Brazil

By Jacopo Ponticelli. 2013

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Does bankruptcy law improve the fate of distressed firms? The role of credit channels (2020, background): “4 Moreover, there are several other papers in the bankruptcy literature, investigating the effect of stronger creditor rights on the credit conditions applied to firms that have higher probability of default with those of firms deemed less likely to default (Rodano et al., 2016; Favara et al., 2017)”
• Debt Enforcement, Investment, and Risk Taking Across Countries (2013, unknown): “bankruptcy code (see Ponticelli, 2015, for a detailed discussion). The new law introduced automatic stay on all litigations against the debtor and made it easier for debtors to initiate debt renegotiation. While the overall reform was much broader, it arguably also weakened debt enforcement. (14)Exa”
• Enlarging the Contracting Space: Collateral Menus, Access to Credit, and Economic Activity (2016, unknown): “Following the literature on judicial efficiency (Ponticelli, 2013), we gather data on the number of pending commercial cases and the number of judges working in each county in 1999 (from Murrell, 2001).”
• How Collateral Laws Shape Lending and Sectoral Activity (2016, unknown): “For example, Jappelli et al. (2005), Chemin (2010), and Ponticelli (2013) show that the way rights are enforced, or not, by courts can be as important as the existence of rights as a matter of law.”
• Bankruptcy law and bank financing (2016, unknown): “Moreover, Ponticelli (2013) shows that court efficiency influences firm performance, using data from the recent Brazilian bankruptcy reform that simultaneously changed features of both reorganization and liquidation. ling creditors should be observed at relatively high levels of cash flow…”