Business I / Insolvency and the Concurso
Practice question · Multiple choice

A struggling but viable firm is worth more running than sold for parts, yet uncoordinated creditors would dismantle it. Which problem is insolvency law solving?

Hints
  1. If every creditor grabs the machine they can reach, what is left of the factory?
  2. Ask whether each creditor acting sensibly produces a sensible outcome collectively.
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C. A collective action problem: the race destroys going-concern value

Why

Individually rational grabbing is collectively ruinous, so the stay replaces a race with a queue and preserves the value everyone is claiming against. It is the same structure as a bank run, nobody is behaving badly, and the outcome is a disaster anyway.

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