Do Bankruptcy Codes Matter? A Study of Defaults in France, Germany, and the UK
Preprint
- 1 January 2005
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Using a large sample of small-to-medium size firms that defaulted on their bank debt in France, Germany, and the UK, we find that large differences in creditorsKeywords
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