Corporate Insolvency Procedures and Bank Behavior: A Study of Selected Asian Economies

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Qaizar Hussain

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Clas Wihlborg

Chapman University; University West

Date Written: October 1999

Abstract

This paper explores insolvency and debt recovery procedures, and political, legal, and institutional factors influencing financial decisions of corporations and banks during pre-crisis years in six Asian economies. It also examines whether these factors may have contributed to the depth and duration of the 1997 crisis. There are two key findings: First, bank behavior and other institutional factors, and not the nature of stakeholder orientation, seem to explain variations in capital structures and the depth of recessions across economies. Second, aspects of insolvency procedures favoring rehabilitation of financially distressed firms seem to explain well the expected duration of the crisis.

Keywords: Insolvency procedures, Bankruptcy, Capital structure, Shareholder concentration, Firm performance, Asian crisis

JEL Classification: G32, G33, K40, P52

Suggested Citation

Hussain, Qaizar and Wihlborg, Clas, Corporate Insolvency Procedures and Bank Behavior: A Study of Selected Asian Economies (October 1999). IMF Working Paper No. 99/135, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=880662

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