Liquidation triggers and the valuation of equity and debt

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3604-3620

  Galai, Dan ^a,b   Raviv, Alon ^a   Wiener, Zvi ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asset pricing; Bankruptcy; Debt pricing; Dynamic grace period; Liquidation trigger

Indexed keywords

EID: 36048941122     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2007.01.012     Document Type: Article

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