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Redesigning The International Lender Of Last Resort, Patrick Bolton, David A. Skeel Jr.
Redesigning The International Lender Of Last Resort, Patrick Bolton, David A. Skeel Jr.
Center for Contract and Economic Organization
This paper is concerned with the issue of how to balance bailouts (or "lending into arrears") with debt reductions (or "private sector involvement") in the resolution of sovereign debt crises. It provides a review of recent proposals for improving the sovereign debt restructuring process. In addition to defending a sovereign bankruptcy proposal we have put forward in recent work, this article proposes a major reorientation of the IMF's role in sovereign debt crises.
Derivatives And The Bankruptcy Code: Why The Special Treatment?, Franklin R. Edwards, Edward R. Morrison
Derivatives And The Bankruptcy Code: Why The Special Treatment?, Franklin R. Edwards, Edward R. Morrison
Faculty Scholarship
The collapse of Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) in Fall 1998 and the Federal Reserve Bank's subsequent efforts to orchestrate a bailout raise important questions about the structure of the Bankruptcy Code. The Code contains numerous provisions affording special treatment to financial derivatives contracts, the most important of which exempts these contracts from the "automatic stay" and permits counterparties to terminate derivatives contracts with a debtor in bankruptcy and seize underlying collateral. No other counterparty or creditor of the debtor has such freedom; to the contrary, the automatic stay prohibits them from undertaking any act that threatens the debtor's assets. …
Financial Contracts And The New Bankruptcy Code: Insulating Markets From Bankrupt Debtors And Bankruptcy Judges, Edward R. Morrison, Joerg Riegel
Financial Contracts And The New Bankruptcy Code: Insulating Markets From Bankrupt Debtors And Bankruptcy Judges, Edward R. Morrison, Joerg Riegel
Faculty Scholarship
The reforms of 2005 yield important but subtle changes in the Bankruptcy Code's treatment of financial contracts. They might appear only to eliminate longstanding uncertainty surrounding the protections available to financial contract counterparties, especially counterparties to repurchase transactions and other derivative contracts. But the ambit of the reforms is much broader. The expanded definitions – especially the definition of "swap agreement" – are now so broad that nearly every derivative contract is subject to the Code's protection. Instead of protecting particular counterparties to particular transactions, the Code now protects any counterparty to any derivative contract. Entire markets have been insulated …
Serial Entrepreneurs And Small Business Bankruptcies, Douglas G. Baird, Edward R. Morrison
Serial Entrepreneurs And Small Business Bankruptcies, Douglas G. Baird, Edward R. Morrison
Faculty Scholarship
Chapter 11 is thought to preserve the going-concern surplus of a financially distressed business – the extra value that its assets possess in their current configuration. Financial distress leads to conflicts among creditors that can lead to inefficient liquidation of a business with going-concern surplus. Chapter 11 avoids this by providing the business with a way of fashioning a new capital structure. This account of Chapter 11 fails to capture what is happening in the typical case. The typical Chapter 11 debtor is a small corporation whose assets are not specialized and rarely worth enough to pay tax claims. There …
How Law Affects Lending, Rainer F.H. Haselmann, Katharina Pistor, Vikrant Vig
How Law Affects Lending, Rainer F.H. Haselmann, Katharina Pistor, Vikrant Vig
Faculty Scholarship
The paper explores how legal change affects lending behavior of banks in twelve transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe. In contrast to previous studies, we use bank level rather than aggregate data, which allows us to control for country level heterogeneity and analyze the effect of legal change on different types of lenders. Using a differences-in-differences methodology to analyze the within country variation of changes in creditor rights protection, we find that the credit supplied by banks increases subsequent to legal change. Further, we show that collateral law matters more for credit market development than bankruptcy law. We also …
Adversary Proceedings In Bankruptcy: A Sideshow, Douglas G. Baird, Edward R. Morrison
Adversary Proceedings In Bankruptcy: A Sideshow, Douglas G. Baird, Edward R. Morrison
Faculty Scholarship
Across a broad range of cases, the civil trial is disappearing. In the early 1960s, about twelve percent of federal civil cases were resolved by trial; by 2002 that percentage had fallen to less than two percent. This sharp decline raises important questions about the quality y and costs of decisionmaking in federal district courts. After all, these courts exist to resolve cases and controversies. It matters whether (and why) these disputes are resolved in or outside the courtroom.
Marc Galanter and Elizabeth Warren suggest that the same thing is happening in the bankruptcy courts and that there is likewise …