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This study investigates uncertainty levels of various industries and tries to determine financial ratios having the … in specified industries. Second, we use a method based on the concept of entropy to measure the level of uncertainty in … industries and also to single out the ratios that best reflect the uncertainty levels in specific industries. Finally, we conduct …
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We demonstrate improvements in predictive power when introducing spline functions to take account of highly non-linear relationships between firm failure and earnings, leverage, and liquidity in a logistic bankruptcy model. Our results show that modeling excessive non-linearities yields...
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The study of firms' default has attracted wide interest among both practitioners and scholars. However, attention has often been limited to a relatively small set of financial variables. In this work, we try to increase the scope of analysis extending the investigation to other possible...
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The rising stockpile of cash as a share of total assets at U.S. firms has intrigued economists since at least the paper of Bates, Kahle, and Stulz (2006), yet there has been relatively little work on where this cash has come from and how it is related to investment performance. We exploit...
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We use an information-theoretic approach to interpret Engle's (1982) and Bollerslev's (1986) GARCH model as a model for the motion in time of the expected conditional second power moment. This interpretation is used to show how these models may be generalized, if we use alternative measures of...
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This paper studies the relation between macroeconomic fluctuations and corporate defaults while conditioning on industry affiliation and an extensive set of firm-specific factors. Using a logit approach on a panel data set for all incorporated Swedish businesses over 1990-2002, we find strong...
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-level uncertainty. We develop a structural model of a firm's value maximization problem that predicts that as industry-level uncertainty … from the Bundesbank's balance sheet database and show that greater uncertainty at the industry level causes firms to …
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The paper analyses options in case of insolvency. Although insolvency plans empirically are very successful, they are …
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-liquidation insolvency proceedings, usually referred to as reorganization. Using the ECJ case law on the Directive, I conclude that although … capital do not present an insurmountable hurdle to the adoption of rational corporate insolvency law. As a side note, I also …
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