Bankruptcy Law, Capital Allocation, and Aggregate Effects: A Dynamic Heterogenous Agent Model with Incomplete Markets

Tao Zha

Annals of Economics and Finance, 2001, vol. 2, issue 2, 379-400

Abstract: Under the assumption that asset markets are incomplete, this paper introduces bankruptcy in an intertemporal heterogenous agent model with capital accumulation and heterogeneous agents. It explores the role of regulatory intervention and argues that intervention in the form of a level of bankruptcy exemption can enhance not only social welfare but also distributive equity. The bankruptcy law is carefully specified in the model. The model generates distributional changes in consumption, capital, and bankruptcy risk in response to an adjustment in the exemption level and accentuates the effects of these redistributions on aggregate variables.

Keywords: Bankruptcy law; Capital allocations; Heterogenous agent; Incomplete markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D52 D92 E69 G18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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