bankruptcy for qualified financial contracts (QFCs) such as derivatives and repurchase agreements, particularly those held by … systemically important major dealer banks. Under current U.S. bankruptcy law, these contracts are exempted from the automatic stay …

share ownership. Furthermore, creditor control rights during bankruptcy (through debtor-in-possession financing and large … stay until filing), the median incumbent does not reduce his stock ownership as the firm approaches bankruptcy …

Recent empirical legal scholarship on the consumer bankruptcy system has uncovered a marked rise in the proportion of … elder Americans filing for relief under the Bankruptcy Code. But these studies have not probed the reasons behind that rise … Consumer Bankruptcy Project (CBP), the largest national sample of consumer debtors in this country, which he uses to explore …

We develop a model of neural networks to study the bankruptcy of U.S. banks. We provide a new model to predict bank … defaults some time before the bankruptcy occurs, taking into account the specific features of the current financial crisis …

bankruptcy proceedings in the United States. Discharge rules in United States are inclined towards preserving the economic …