Corporate Leverage and Employees’ Rights in Bankruptcy
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- Ellul, Andrew & Pagano, Marco, 2019. "Corporate leverage and employees’ rights in bankruptcy," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 133(3), pages 685-707.
- Andrew Ellul & Marco Pagano, 2017. "Corporate Leverage and Employees’ Rights in Bankruptcy," EIEF Working Papers Series 1706, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF), revised Feb 2019.
- Ellul, Andrew & Pagano, Marco, 2017. "Corporate Leverage and Employees' Rights in Bankruptcy," CEPR Discussion Papers 12033, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
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Keywords
workers’ rights; bankruptcy; seniority; leverage; wage bargaining.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- G31 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Capital Budgeting; Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies
- G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
- G38 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Government Policy and Regulation
- H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
- H26 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Tax Evasion and Avoidance
- M40 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CFN-2017-04-23 (Corporate Finance)
- NEP-LAW-2017-04-23 (Law & Economics)
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