This paper examines the role of geography and culture in explaining bankruptcy. We adopt survival analyses to model the bankruptcy risk of a firm, allowing for time-varying covariates. Based on a large sample from all major sectors of the Swiss economy, we find the following results: (i) The...

This paper examines the determinants of mergers and bankruptcies, using firm level data from the Swiss Business Census and the Dun & Bradstreet exit database for Switzerland (1995-2000). Employing duration analysis, we find considerable differences in the determinants of mergers and...

Individual financial systems can be understood as very specific configurations of certain key elements. Often these configurations remain unchanged for decades. We hypothesize that there is a specific relationship between key elements, namely that of complementarity. Thus, complementarity seems...

Die für die Insolvenzdelikte des § 283 StGB maßgebenden abstrakten Tatbestandsmerkmale sollen hier mit den betriebswirtschaftlichen Instrumenten der Rechnungslegung und Bilanzierung präzisiert werden. Dabei spielen die substantiierte wertmäßige Ermittlung der Zahlungsunfähigkeit, der...

Burns and Mitchell (1946, 109) found a recession of "exceptional brevity and moderate amplitude." I confirm their judgment by examining a variety of high-frequency data. Industrial output fell sharply but rebounded within months. Retail seemed little affected and there is no evidence of...

Bankruptcy prediction is one of the most important research areas in corporate finance. Bankruptcies are an indispensable element of the functioning of the market economy, and at the same time generate significant losses for stakeholders. Hence, this book was established to collect the results...

Insgesamt sind die privaten Haushaltsschuldenquoten in den meisten Ländern der EU in den letzten Jahren stark angestiegen. Eine anhaltende Verschuldung der privaten Haushalte kann negative Effekte auf die gesamte Wirtschaft haben, falls die Überschuldung so hoch ist, dass der private Konsum...