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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"bankrupt"”.
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Dynamics of bankrupt stocks
In this thesis, we study the behavior of bankrupt stocks. Bankrupt stock is a special case of the Hard-to-Borrow stocks. Besides the general nice feature of the Hard-to-borrow feedback for the buy-in demand, the bankrupt stocks could exclude the diffusive effects. This nice property would modify …
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Market behavior for bonds of bankrupt railroads.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1975
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Reorganizing Bankrupt Companies: Comparing the Alternatives Under Saudi Arabian and American Bankruptcy Law
… Arabia. Those few studies that do examine the Bankruptcy Preventive Settlement (BPS) system and the Commercial Court Law (CCL) system in Articles 125-129 do not provide much depth of analysis. These studies have not adequately addressed how the Saudi regulator should balance the interests of …
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Lietuvos įmonių bankroto analizė ir APB „APRANGA“ bankroto tikimybės ekonominis vertinimas /
… literature, which help is excreted essence of bankruptcy and bankrupt phase. Theoretical aspect based on scientific studies, are excluded bankrupt firms Lithuania causes, consequences and possible bankrupt diagnosis techniques.Bankruptcy probability is determined based on an integrated …
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INNOVATION IN DECLINING AND DISTRESSED FIRMS
… are so severe that firms are forced into bankruptcy. This dissertation investigates how organizations respond to such performance shortfalls, and how those responses affect their subsequent performance. It focuses on three specific aspects of these responses---the intensity of …
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Strategic and financial factors in business failure, bankruptcy and reorganization
… strategic factors relating to the failure and bankruptcy of 73 firms that went bankrupt from 1980 to 1986. The characteristics of the bankrupt firms were compared with those of a matching sample of nonbankrupt firms. On average the bankrupt firms were weaker than the comparison firms six years …
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Bankroto modelių patikimumo vertinimas Lietuvos apgyvendinimo ir maitinimo sektoriaus įmonėse /
… of this work is to evaluate reliability of bankruptcy prediction models in accommodation and catering sector companies of Lithuania. After literature analysis suitable bankruptcy prediction models were selected and used to operating as well as bankrupt accommodation and catering companies to …
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A re-examination of two major bankruptcy prediction models
This thesis examines two major bankruptcy prediction models existing in the literature: Altman's Z-score model and Ohlson's probabilistic model. The objective is to test whether the model parameters have changed from what they were when Altman and Ohlson originally estimated their models. Two …
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Study of business failure in the hospitality industry from both microeconomic and macroeconomic perspectives
… developed a discriminant model for predicting bankruptcy of hospitality firms (lodging and restaurant firms). This model achieved a 92-percent accuracy in classifying the in-sample firms into bankrupt and non-bankrupt groups one year prior to bankruptcy, and a 83-percent accuracy two years …
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Strategies for managing business disruption due to grid computing
… sometimes to the extent that incumbents go bankrupt. In this thesis we would address the issue of what strategies are essential to prepare for and to manage disruptions for the affected businesses and industries. Specifically we will look at grid computing that is poised to disrupt (1) …
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Prediction of going-concern status: a probit model for the auditors
… A sample of 165 companies that filed for bankruptcy during the period 1980 to 1985 and a matched sample of 165 non-bankrupt companies are used to construct and test the Koh model. Following the lead taken by the proposed SAS on going-concern assessments, a non-going concern is …
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The use of factoring in business : a review and analysis of the local situation
… cash and companies with a poor cash flow may go bankrupt even if they are very profitable. Factoring is designed to ease cash flow problems and is gaining popularity in Malta. Twelve companies that use factoring were selected and interviewed to represent the population. This qualitative study was …
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Slapstick Carnage: The Absurd Universe of Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian
… the idea that the characters are so morally bankrupt that they are able to make jokes in the midst of so much destruction; or, that it serves to keep the reader's sensibilities in a state of flux between attraction and revulsion: relieving tension, then increasing it again and again, thereby …
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The School On Cemetery Road
… together ordinary perople in an ordinary, almost bankrupt rural school. After days of unseasonably warm, humid weather, thunderstorms, and tornado warnings, a severe storm strikes the school just before lunch on April 15, 1993. Students and faculty members alike scurry for shelter from the …
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Predicting financial distress of JSE-Listed companies using Bayesian networks
… using Bayesian probabilistic models to predict bankruptcy of JSE-listed companies. A sample of 132 companies is considered with fourteen years of financial statement information and macroeconomic indicators used as predictor variables. Various permutations of Bayesian models are tested relating …
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The New Bankruptcy law of Saudi Arabia: An Overview and a Comparative Study of Approaches to Small Businesses Bankruptcy
… undertakes a descriptive analysis of the Saudi bankruptcy law enacted in 2018. This dissertation makes a significant contribution to the research on Saudi bankruptcy law by establishing that the new law is friendlier to debtors in general and to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in particular. …
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The development of Brunei during the British residential era, 1906-1959 : a sultanate regenerated
… In this study it will be shown hoer a moribund, bankrupt and isolated backwater, troubled by internal disaffection and living under a Brooke 'sword of Damocles', was regenerated by more enlightened British administration, coupled later with the fortuitous discovery of petroleum, into a peaceful, …
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A study of risk management and capital allocation in Korean Insurance Companies
… management. 7 of 30 insurance companies were bankrupt in financial crisis. The survivors also suffered from the absence of risk management system. But the financial crisis fostered the ability to propagate in the wild. Korean insurance companies started to realize the risks and built up a risk …
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Essays In Finance And Macroeconomics
… provide restructurable loans that reduce firm bankruptcy losses and enhance production efficiency. Raising capital requirements reduces deposit insurance distortions but also deposit tax shields. As a result, firms cut back on both bank and non-bank borrowing while going bankrupt more …
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Evaluation of a financial distress model for Department of Defense hardware contractors
… how often the model correctly classified a bankrupt firm as distressed and a nonbankrupt firm as healthy. Then, model accuracy was evaluated by comparing these test results (i.e., percent correctly classified) to results published by the model’s developers. This comparison produced mixed …
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