Working papers:
The governance of failure: An anatomy of corporate bankruptcy in Japan
Frank Packer; Marc Ryser
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- Title:
- The governance of failure: An anatomy of corporate bankruptcy in Japan
- Author(s):
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Packer, Frank
Ryser, Marc - Date:
- 1992
- Type:
- Working papers
- Department:
- Center on Japanese Economy and Business
- Permanent URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:188
- Series:
- Center on Japanese Economy and Business Working Papers
- Part Number:
- 62
- Publisher:
- Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
- Publisher Location:
- New York
- Abstract:
- The broad trade-offs facing bankruptcy policy are, of course, not uniquely American. In this paper, we survey the Japanese corporate bankruptcy system, and present a comprehensive empirical analysis as to how it works in practice. Our framework for analysis is a variation on a theme of transaction cost economics: instruments of bankruptcy policy should effect a discriminating alignment between firms and the institutions governing failure, one which grants the services of legally centralized recontracting to those cases that warrant it, while maintaining incentive-intensity in private ordering for the others. (Williamson, 1985; 1989) This paper, through the examination of bankruptcy statistics, and the analysis of bankruptcy laws, courts and other institutions governing business failure in Japan, presents the Japanese system as a case study of corporate bankruptcy policy and institutional design.
- Subject(s):
- Economics, Commerce-Business
- Item views:
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