Do Reorganization Costs Matter for Efficiency? Evidence from a Bankruptcy Reform in Colombia

An efficient bankruptcy system should liquidate nonviable businesses and reorganize viable ones. The importance of this filtering process has long been recognized in the literature; the typical reason advanced for its failure has been biases (in codes or among judges). In this paper we show that ban...

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Main Authors: Gine, Xavier, Love, Inessa
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5780