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This paper provides a synthetic and evaluative survey of issues in corporate financial distress and bankruptcy. This area has moved into a public domain as a result of the recent global financial crisis that witnessed failures of many venerable institutions that got rescued by the government....
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The value premium is the empirical observation that low market/book “value” stocks have higher returns than high market/book “growth” stocks. In this paper, we report evidence that there is a value premium for firms in financial distress despite the anomalous observation that firms in...
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Our study examines whether financial distress risk is systematic risk using twelve portfolios sorted by size, book-to-market, and leverage and a portfolio of distressed firms covering an 18-year period. It also tests the explanatory power of the risk factors that best capture default risk. The...
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The study investigates the impact of financial distress (credit spread) and liquidity crises (TED spread) on size … to establish the long/short-run impact of financial distress and liquidity crisis on these premiums during recessionary … liquidity crisis. On the other hand, size, value and investment premiums rise with financial distress/liquidity crisis, only …
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An important research question examined in the credit risk literature focuses on the proportion of corporate yield spreads attributed to default risk. This topic is reexamined in the light of the different issues associated with the computation of transition and default probabilities obtained...
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Since the outset of the recent financial crisis, liquidity problems have been cited as the cause behind the … role for bankruptcy as a provider of liquidity. The Creditors' Bargain theory argues that bankruptcy law should be limited …-in-possession financing, sales free and clear of liens, and coerced loans can be seen as liquidity-providing rules that target either debt …
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After the financial crisis in 2008, the negative abnormal stock price returns on the downgrade announcements with respect to the firms that eventually filed for Chapter 11 are no longer significant. Because the negative CARs for the firms that were within the same rating categories but did not...
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In 2002, a legal reform introduced in India allowed secured creditors to seize and liquidate the defaulter's assets. We study firms' choice between capital and labor in response to these strengthened creditor rights by exploiting variation in their pre-policy proportion of collateralizable...
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One of the elements of company’s evaluation is ratio analysis. It includes computation of bankruptcy risk metrics. There are multiple such measures, of which two seem to be quite universal and commonly applied. These are current ratio and indebtedness ratio. In this study, the accuracy of...
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