Edward Morrison : Works in Progress

Consumer Finance and Bankruptcy

Mortgage Modification and Strategic Default: Evidence from a Legal Settlement with Countrywide (with Christopher Mayer, Tomasz Piskorski, and Arpit Gupta) (revise and resubmit at The American Economic Review)

Health Shocks and Bankruptcy: Evidence from Automobile Crashes (with Arpit Gupta, Larry Cook, Heather Keenan, and Lenora Olson) (in draft)

Analysis of Second Liens and a New Proposal (with Christopher Mayer an dTomasz Piskorski) (in draft)

Contagion and Mortgage Default (with Christopher Mayer and Tomasz Piskorski)

Judicial Discretion, Bankruptcy Outcomes, and Economic Impacts: When Does Judicial Discretion Matter? (with Richard Hynes)

Business Bankruptcy and Corporate Restructuring

Measuring “Success” in Chapter 11: Evidence from Bond Returns (with Kenneth M. Ayotte)

Chrysler, GM, and the Future of Chapter 11 (in draft, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/ papers.cfm?abstract_id=1529734)

Financial Contracts and the Bankruptcy Code

Outer Limits of the Bankruptcy Code’s Safe Harbors for Financial Contracts (in draft)