TY - JOUR AU - Hart,Oliver AU - Drago,Rafael La Porta AU - Lopez-de-Silane,Florencio AU - Moore,John TI - A New Bankruptcy Procedure that Uses Multiple Auctions JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 6278 PY - 1997 Y2 - November 1997 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6278 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6278.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Oliver D. Hart Department of Economics Littauer Center 220 Harvard University Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: 617/496-3461 Fax: 617-495-7730 E-Mail: ohart@harvard.edu Rafael La Porta Dartmouth College Tuck School 210 Tuck Hall Hanover, NH 03755 Tel: 603/646-3739 E-Mail: rafael.laporta@dartmouth.edu Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes EDHEC Business School 393, Promenade des Anglais BP 3116 06202 Nice Cedex 3 FRANCE Tel: +33 (0) 4 93 18 78 07 Fax: +33 (0) 4 93 18 78 41 E-Mail: Florencio.lopezdesilanes@edhec.edu John Moore William Robertson Building Edinburgh Scotland, EH8 9JY U.K. E-Mail: j.h.moore@ed.ac.uk AB - We develop a new bankruptcy procedure that makes use of multiple auctions. The procedure" is designed to work even when capital markets do not function well (for example in developing" economies, or in economies in transition) -- although it can be used in all economies." ER -