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    Consumer Bankruptcy and Financial Health
    (2015) Dobbie, Will; Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul Simon; Yang, Crystal
    This paper estimates the effect of Chapter 13 bankruptcy protection on post-filing financial outcomes using a new dataset linking bankruptcy filings to credit bureau records. Our empirical strategy uses the leniency of randomly-assigned judges as an instrument for Chapter 13 protection. Over the first five post-filing years, we find that Chapter 13 protection decreases an index measuring adverse financial events such as civil judgments and repossessions by 0.316 standard deviations, increases the probability of being a homeowner by 13.2 percentage points, and increases credit scores by 14.9 points. Chapter 13 protection has little impact on open unsecured debt, but decreases the amount of debt in collections by $1,315.
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    Essays in Consumer and Corporate Finance
    (2015-05-14) Goldsmith-Pinkham, Paul Simon; Scharfstein, David S.; Shleifer, Andrei; Imbens, Guido
    The tension between creditors and debtors is an integral component in finance. My dissertation focuses on two important cases where this tension has important economic implications. In my first two chapters, I focus on debtor protections in consumer finance. In chapter one, I examine the institution of consumer bankruptcy and the effect it has on consumers' access to credit and subsequent financial health. In chapter two, I study the effect of debtor protections during the recent recession, and quantify the extent to which these policies can alleviate the decline associated with debt-driven recessions. Finally, in the third chapter, I focus on the governance of firms, specifically examining a new measure capturing the extent to which foreign firms cross-listing in the United States bind to domestic governance rules. In sum, my dissertation chapters provide new perspectives on the interaction between creditors and debtors, and the extent to which policy environments can influence this interaction.