This article presents the results of the first empirical study focused on older Australians in bankruptcy. Our study — based on the examination of a large and unique dataset obtained by the authors from the bankruptcy regulator — provides a valuable insight into the severe financial...

The effects of the COVID-19 crisis have driven many listed Australian companies to raise emergency capital. These share issues have been facilitated by a relaxation of the rules applying to capital raising by the Australian Securities Exchange, a move supported by the Australian Securities and...

According to data published by the Australian Financial Security Authority (AFSA), Australian women and men offer strikingly similar reasons for their entry into bankruptcy. Yet a more detailed analysis of AFSA's data indicates that women and men often go bankrupt in very different social and...

In May 2015 the Productivity Commission released its Draft Report ‘Business Set-up, Transfer and Closure'. This research note does not deal with the broad range of issues touched on by the Productivity Commission. Instead, it concentrates on those matters relating to corporate insolvency and...

The authors analyse resolutions proposed by shareholders of Australian companies listed on the Australian Securities Exchange for the 10 year period from 2004 to 2013. They investigate the number of shareholder resolutions over time, the subject matter of the resolutions, whether the resolutions...