This study explores determinants of voluntary administration (VA) and deed of company arrangement (DOCA) durations using unconditional quantile regression (UQR). There is heterogeneity in the strength of determinants across the VA and DOCA distributions. Determinants related to complexity and...

When we examine all firms in the sample we find that short-term debt is positively associated with earnings management consistent with some prior studies and the debt hypothesis. However, when we focus on high creditworthy (investment grade) firms we find a negative relation between short-term...