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Showing 1 to 20 of 230 for “"bankruptcy"”.
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Consumer bankruptcy in Thailand
… the 13,000 Thais who find themselves in the Thai bankruptcy system each year. This system not only affects the individuals who have a bankruptcy case filed against them, but it also affects the Thai economy more broadly. Annually, the Thai bankruptcy system handles debts totaling over 279,079 …
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Bankruptcy Procedures for Sovereign Debtors
The idea of bankruptcy for insolvent sovereign borrowers has been under discussion for a long time, yet has never been implemented. This paper presents various proposed solutions to apply bankruptcy reorganization principles to sovereign debt crises. The current international framework is …
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The economics of personal bankruptcy
This thesis examines the effect of bankruptcy law on consumer borrowing and welfare. The thesis consists of four theoretical chapters and two empirical chapters. Chapter 1 presents a simple model of consumer borrowing where the repayment of debt is governed by a bankruptcy law which allows a …
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Bankruptcy and politics: a framework for bankruptcy policymaking in the united states congress and courts
<p>The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 was enacted amid much controversy and was considered by many observers to mark a major change in the direction of U.S. bankruptcy policy. The dissertation uses the law's passage as a vehicle to develop an explicit model of the …
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Bankruptcy prediction in the casino industry
… study of the effectiveness of traditional bankruptcy prediction models as applied to the casino industry. The study uses financial information from a sample of failed and non-failed casino companies to evaluate the ability of bankruptcy prediction models developed for general industry usage …
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The Economics of Corporate Bankruptcy Law
… of the literature on the economics of corporate bankruptcy law, this thesis contains three own contributions: First, a model is presented where a firm's manager acquires some private information about whether a firm should be liquidated or stay in business. Providing the manager with suitable …
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Bankruptcy Stigma: A Socio-Legal Study
<p>For as long as the institution of bankruptcy has existed, legal commentators have debated whether it is appropriate for debtors to experience some social stigma upon filing for personal bankruptcy--that is, whether it serves the goals of bankruptcy law for debtors to feel shame. While this issue …
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Creditor coordination effects and bankruptcy prediction
… increase in forecasting accuracy of hazard rate bankruptcy prediction models with creditor coordination effects over the forecasting period 1990-2009. A firm's probability of bankruptcy is likely to be marginally affected by creditors' coordination behavior, since failure to coordinate may result …
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The concept of bankruptcy (al-Iflas) under Islamic law : a comparison with English and Malaysian personal bankruptcy laws
This research deals with the concept of bankruptcy (a]-iflias) under Islamic law in detail with special reference to Sunni schools of law (a1-madhahib)- To do this, the Qur'an, Hadith, their commentaries and classical manuals of Sunni schools are consulted. It also deals with English and Malaysian …
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Bankruptcy outcome after the point of filing
The subject of corporate bankruptcy has been of interest to financial academicians and practitioners alike. Researchers have directed most of their attention to accounting-based models for predicting bankruptcy filings. Although some research has attempted to estimate the probability and costs of …
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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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Bankruptcy and Transaction Costs in General Financial Models
… normative, of two seldom researched frictions: bankruptcy and transaction costs. It is the hope that by studying financial frictions in isolation, we may learn which frictions have the greatest effect on welfare, which frictions are most able to be controlled by the government, and how to …
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Predicting Bankruptcy and Catastrophic Loss: A Portfolio Approach
… and Dr. Leo Rebholz in Rebholz’s 2002 thesis, Bankruptcy as Cusp Catastrophe. This paper first validates the model, introduces a new variable, which examines financial momentum, and transforms the bankruptcy variable to catastrophic loss. The success of the model was viewed through a …
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Predicting Bankruptcy with 10-K Length and Readability
… features of 10-K filings in the prediction of bankruptcy – readability and document length. The 10-K filing is a useful accounting artifact that is intended to address information asymmetry inherently present in the management/shareholder agency relationship. The creation of this document by …
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Personal Bankruptcy Systems in the EU – Measuring Leniency
… led to a regulatory wave to introduce personal bankruptcy regimes for consumers and entrepreneurs. Academic research on personal bankruptcy has distinguished between firstly discussions on personal bankruptcy regulations in themselves and are usually focused on the controversial impact thereof …
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Determinants of bankruptcy protection duration for Canadian firms
… present thesis examines the determinants of the bankruptcy protection duration for Canadian firms. Using a sample of Canadian firms that filed for bankruptcy protection between the calendar years 1992 and 2009, we fmd that the firm age, the industry adjusted operating margin, the default spread, …
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The Impact of Bankruptcy Exemptions for Retirement Assets
When filing for personal bankruptcy, an individual can, in almost all cases, claim an exemption for retirement assets. Using the Survey of Consumer Finances from 2007 and 2010, we test the theory that highly educated or financially sophisticated households allocate more resources to retirement …
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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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Essays on bankruptcy and the resolution of financial distress
… equityholders often emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings with more value than the absolute priority rule (APR) would suggest is now a generally accepted fact. The form in which this value is distributed, however, is less well understood. In particular, why do the original …
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