Flattening the Insolvency Curve: Promoting Corporate Restructuring in Asia and the Pacific in the Post-C19 Recovery

By W. A Bauer, R. S Craig, Jose M Garrido, Kenneth H Kang, Kenichiro Kashiwase, Sung Jin Kim, Yan Liu, Sohrab Rafiq

January 29, 2021

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W. A Bauer, R. S Craig, Jose M Garrido, Kenneth H Kang, Kenichiro Kashiwase, Sung Jin Kim, Yan Liu, and Sohrab Rafiq. Flattening the Insolvency Curve: Promoting Corporate Restructuring in Asia and the Pacific in the Post-C19 Recovery, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed December 3, 2024

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Summary

The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) triggered a sharp contraction of economic activity across Asia and the Pacific. Policymakers adopted a “whatever it takes” approach in their initial response, relying mainly on liquidity support to help firms survive the shock. This paper discusses how the initial policy response should evolve as the region’s economies stabilize and enter the recovery phase. Many firms will need to repair their balance sheets and adjust their business models to the post-pandemic realities. The priority will be to support this process by facilitating the efficient restructuring of viable firms while allowing nonviable firms to exit. This requires action on three complementary fronts: reinforcing private debt resolution frameworks to flatten the insolvency curve, ensuring that adequate financing is available to support corporate restructuring, and facilitating access to equity to speed up the reallocation of jobs and capital into growth sectors.

Subject: Economic sectors, Financial crises

Keywords: Corporate restructuring, COVID-19, Financial sector policy, Fiscal response, Insolvency frameworks

Publication Details

Pages:

40
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Working Paper No. 2021/016
Stock No:

WPIEA2021016
ISBN:

9781513568096
ISSN:

1018-5941

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