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      • May 2025
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      First Citizens’ Acquisition of SVB

      By: Samuel Antill, Marco Sammon and Erik Stafford
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      Antill, Samuel, Marco Sammon, and Erik Stafford. "First Citizens’ Acquisition of SVB." Harvard Business School Case 225-092, May 2025.
      • 2025
      • Working Paper

      Healthcare Provider Bankruptcies

      By: Samuel Antill, Ashvin Gandhi, Jessica Bai and Adrienne Sabety
      Healthcare firms are filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy at record rates. We find that bankruptcies increase healthcare staff turnover, worsen care, and harm patients. Using a difference-in-differences design, we estimate that a bankruptcy filing immediately increases... View Details
      Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Retention; Health Industry
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      Antill, Samuel, Ashvin Gandhi, Jessica Bai, and Adrienne Sabety. "Healthcare Provider Bankruptcies." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33763, May 2025.
      • April 2025
      • Article

      Crisis Interventions in Corporate Insolvency

      By: Samuel Antill and Christopher Clayton
      We model the optimal resolution of insolvent firms in general equilibrium. Collateral-constrained banks lend to (i) solvent firms to finance investments and (ii) distressed firms to avoid liquidation. Liquidations create negative fire-sale externalities. Liquidations... View Details
      Keywords: Insolvent Firms; Government Intervention; Liquidation; Econometric Models; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Policy
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      Antill, Samuel, and Christopher Clayton. "Crisis Interventions in Corporate Insolvency." Journal of Finance 80, no. 2 (April 2025): 875–910.
      • December 2024
      • Article

      Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees Excessively High?

      By: Samuel Antill
      Chapter 7 is the most popular bankruptcy system for U.S. firms and individuals. Chapter 7 professional fees are substantial. Theoretically, high fees might be an unavoidable cost of incentivizing professionals. I test this empirically. I study trustees, the most... View Details
      Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Motivation and Incentives; Policy
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      Antill, Samuel. "Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees Excessively High?" Review of Financial Studies 37, no. 12 (December 2024): 3595–3647. (RFS Rising Scholar Best Paper Award; Lead Article and Editor's Choice.)
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      The Real Effects of Bankruptcy Forum Shopping

      By: Samuel Antill and Aymeric Bellon
      Many non-Delaware firms strategically file for bankruptcy in Delaware. Should this "forum shopping" be allowed? This question has motivated six congressional bill proposals over decades of policy debate. Using a novel natural experiment and Census-Bureau microdata, we... View Details
      Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Government Legislation; Policy; Geographic Location; Delaware
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      Antill, Samuel, and Aymeric Bellon. "The Real Effects of Bankruptcy Forum Shopping." Working Paper, December 2024.
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Creditor-on-Creditor Violence and Secured Debt Dynamics

      By: Samuel Antill, Neng Wang and Zhaoli Jiang
      Secured lenders have recently demanded a new condition in distressed debt restructurings: competing secured lenders must lose priority. We model the implications of this “creditor-on-creditor violence” trend. In our dynamic model, secured lenders enjoy higher priority... View Details
      Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Conflict and Resolution
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      Antill, Samuel, Neng Wang, and Zhaoli Jiang. "Creditor-on-Creditor Violence and Secured Debt Dynamics." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32823, August 2024. (Reject & Resubmit, Review of Financial Studies.)
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      The Efficiency of Patent Litigation

      By: Samuel Antill, Murat Alp Celik, Xu Tian and Toni M. Whited
      How efficient is the U.S. patent litigation system? We quantify the extent to which the litigation system shapes innovation using a novel dynamic model, in which heterogeneous firms innovate and face potential patent lawsuits. We show that the impact of a litigation... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Lawsuits and Litigation; Growth and Development; Welfare; Patents
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      Antill, Samuel, Murat Alp Celik, Xu Tian, and Toni M. Whited. "The Efficiency of Patent Litigation." Working Paper, May 2024. (Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Finance.)
      • January 2024 (Revised January 2024)
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      Leverage and Liquidity at Silicon Valley Bank

      By: Samuel Antill and Erik Stafford
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      Antill, Samuel, and Erik Stafford. "Leverage and Liquidity at Silicon Valley Bank." Harvard Business School Case 224-062, January 2024. (Revised January 2024.)
      • August 2023
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      Financing the Litigation Arms Race

      By: Samuel Antill and Steven R. Grenadier
      Using a dynamic real-option model of litigation, we show that the increasingly popular practice of third-party litigation financing has ambiguous implications for total ex-post litigant surplus. A defendant and a plaintiff bargain over a settlement payment. The... View Details
      Keywords: Litigation Financing; Dynamic Bargaining; Real Options; Lawsuits and Litigation; Financing and Loans
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      Antill, Samuel, and Steven R. Grenadier. "Financing the Litigation Arms Race." Journal of Financial Economics 149, no. 2 (August 2023): 218–234.
      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      Much Ado About Nothing? Overreaction to Random Regulatory Audits

      By: Samuel Antill and Joseph Kalmenovitz
      Regulators often audit firms to detect non-compliance. Exploiting a natural experiment in the lobbying industry, we show that firms overreact to audits and this response distorts prices and reduces welfare. Each year, federal regulators audit a random sample of... View Details
      Keywords: Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Price
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      Antill, Samuel, and Joseph Kalmenovitz. "Much Ado About Nothing? Overreaction to Random Regulatory Audits." Working Paper, August 2023.
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      Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy?

      By: Samuel Antill
      In U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, firms are either reorganized, acquired, or liquidated. I show that decisions to liquidate often reduce creditor recovery, costing creditors billions of dollars every year. I exploit the within-district random assignment of... View Details
      Keywords: Bankruptcy; Bankruptcy Reorganization; Recovery Rate; Structural Estimation; Roy Model; 363 Sales; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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      Antill, Samuel. "Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy?" Journal of Financial Economics 144, no. 2 (May 2022): 523–546.
      • April 2022 (Revised December 2022)
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      Hertz in Bankruptcy: A Wild Ride in Pandemic Times

      By: Kristin Mugford, Stuart C. Gilson and Samuel Antill
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      Mugford, Kristin, Stuart C. Gilson, and Samuel Antill. "Hertz in Bankruptcy: A Wild Ride in Pandemic Times." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 222-713, April 2022. (Revised December 2022.)
      • February 2022 (Revised March 2022)
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      Hertz in Bankruptcy: A Wild Ride in Pandemic Times

      By: Samuel Antill, Stuart Gilson and Kristin Mugford
      Hertz filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to asset-backed securities (ABS) obligations and the COVID-19 pandemic. Enthusiastic Robinhood investors and shrewd negotiating tactics helped Hertz stabilize. Roughly nine months into the bankruptcy, Hertz received... View Details
      Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; COVID-19 Pandemic; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Health Pandemics; Valuation; Capital Structure; Negotiation; Private Equity; Travel Industry; United States
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      Antill, Samuel, Stuart Gilson, and Kristin Mugford. "Hertz in Bankruptcy: A Wild Ride in Pandemic Times." Harvard Business School Case 222-064, February 2022. (Revised March 2022.)
      • January 2022
      • Technical Note

      Introduction to Capital Structure Analytics

      By: Samuel Antill and Ted Berk
      This technical note provides an overview of key analytical approaches that are useful in assessing the appropriateness of a firm’s capital structure and funding plan. This note introduces basic quantitative tools and metrics that are commonly used as inputs to this... View Details
      Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Business Plan; Forecasting and Prediction; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Financial Liquidity; Financial Management; Financing and Loans
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      Antill, Samuel, and Ted Berk. "Introduction to Capital Structure Analytics." Harvard Business School Technical Note 222-061, January 2022.
      • July 2021
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      Augmenting Markets with Mechanisms

      By: Samuel Antill and Darrell Duffie
      We explain how the common practice of size-discovery trade detracts from overall financial market efficiency. At each of a series of size-discovery sessions, traders report their desired trades, generating allocations of the asset and cash that rely on the most recent... View Details
      Keywords: Mechanism Design; Price Impact; Size Discovery; Allocative Efficiency; Workup; Dark Pool; Financial Markets; Market Design; Performance Efficiency
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      Antill, Samuel, and Darrell Duffie. "Augmenting Markets with Mechanisms." Review of Economic Studies 88, no. 4 (July 2021): 1665–1719.
      • July 2019
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      Optimal Capital Structure and Bankruptcy Choice: Dynamic Bargaining vs Liquidation

      By: Samuel Antill and Steven R. Grenadier
      We model a firm’s optimal capital structure decision in a framework in which it may later choose to enter either Chapter 11 reorganization or Chapter 7 liquidation. Creditors anticipate equityholders’ ex-post reorganization incentives and price them into the ex-ante... View Details
      Keywords: Default; Dynamic Bargaining; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Mathematical Methods
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      Antill, Samuel, and Steven R. Grenadier. "Optimal Capital Structure and Bankruptcy Choice: Dynamic Bargaining vs Liquidation." Journal of Financial Economics 133, no. 1 (July 2019): 198–224.
      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Investment Timing with Costly Search for Financing

      By: Samuel Antill
      I develop a dynamic model of investment timing in which firms must first choose when to search for external financing. Search is costly and the arrival of investors is uncertain, leading to delay in financing and investment. Depending on parameters, my model can... View Details
      Keywords: Real Options; Search And Bargaining; Time-varying Financial Conditions; Investment; Venture Capital; Mathematical Methods
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      Antill, Samuel. "Investment Timing with Costly Search for Financing." Working Paper, December 2017.
      • Forthcoming
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      Consumer Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy

      By: Samuel Antill and Megan Hunter
      We estimate the indirect costs of corporate bankruptcy associated with lost customers. In incentivized experiments, randomly informing consumers about a firm’s Chapter 11 reorganization lowers their willingness to pay for the firm’s products by 17%-28%. Consumers worry... View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Choice; Bankruptcy; Financial Distress; Structural Estimation; Experimental Economics; Hertz; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Perception; Consumer Behavior
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      Antill, Samuel, and Megan Hunter. "Consumer Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy." Journal of Finance (forthcoming).
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