Consumer bankruptcy and chapter choice: state panel evidence.
Between 1985 and 1996, the number of personal bankruptcy cases filed annually in the United States rose from 341,000 to 1.1 million, and the rate of bankruptcies per 100,000 adults increased from 203 to 596. By state, bankruptcy rates vary from a low of 147 in Hawaii to a high of 956 in Tennessee. A...
| Published in: | Contemporary Economic Policy Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 552 - 567 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
October 1999
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