Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145069 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6034
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Insolvency systems play a crucial role in protection of creditor rights, yet micro-level empirical evidence on the functioning of insolvency regimes worldwide is sparse. We investigate whether creditors’ recovery of outstanding claims, a measure of ex-post efficiency of an insolvency regime, depends on the characteristics of the trustee delegated the administration of the liquidation proceedings. To this end, we draw on a novel dataset of firm liquidations from Slovenia and exploit courts’ de facto random assignment of firm liquidation cases to licensed liquidation trustees. Using a wide range of specifications and controls, we find that a subset of trustee characteristics indeed matters for debt recovery. Thus, ex-post efficiency of an insolvency regime depends not only on its formal rules and procedures, but also on who implements them in practice.
Subjects: 
insolvency
firm liquidations
debt recovery
liquidation trustees
Slovenia
JEL: 
G33
K22
P37
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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