Does industry-wide distress affect defaulted firms? Evidence from creditor recoveries

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 787-821

  Acharya, Viral V ^a   Bharath, Sreedhar T ^b   Srinivasan, Anand ^c  

^a LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asset specificity; Bankruptcy; Credit risk; Illiquidity; Loss given default

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547689672     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2006.05.011     Document Type: Article

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