During the last decade, there was a growing body of case law of lender liability in the United States and France. This doctrine, whose prime goal is to protect investors against opportunism by banks, limits the involvement of banks in the management of commercial firms. This article explores the...

New logit models for predicting bankruptcy of Polish companies are presented. Major features of these approaches are: (1) selection of appropriate companies to the sample as the key step of the research, (2) well defined samples, (3) the reasoning based on the unified financial state-ments and...

Law and economics scholarship has contributed greatly to our understanding of corporate insolvency law. This paper provides an overview of this literature. It begins by defining some relevant terminology, and then reviews theories about the goals of insolvency law. It then considers Jackson's...

The validity of the use of financial statements as a source of information for detecting financial distress is questionable because of the opportunistic behaviour of the company’s management. This study aims to analyse the effect of accrual earnings management, real earnings management, and...

This paper proposes a model of how agents adjust their asset holdings in response to losses in general equilibrium. By emphasising the relation between deflation and financial distress, we capture some original features of the early debt-deflation literature, such as distress selling,...

The study examines main determinants of financial distress of companies in Poland during the recent transformation period. The data compose a sample of 1995-97 annual financial statements of 200 unlisted companies in Poland. The sample was collected by the Institute of Economics of the Polish...

This paper proposes a model of how agents adjust their asset holdings in response to losses in general equilibrium. By emphasising the relation between deflation and financial distress, we capture some original features of the early debt-deflation literature, such as distress selling,...

The determinants of transitions between different states of financial distress are analyzed using two versions of Markov chain models: a multinomial logit model without random effects and a multinomial logit model capturing such unobservable factors. The empirical analysis is based on a panel...

This paper considers the path from formation to failure of two Internet start-up companies in the context of the work of numerous academic researchers in the field of corporate financial distress and bankruptcy. In the 1990s, several authors found evidence that small, young companies are...

Municipalities financial distress (which we refer as financial vulnerability) is a recurrent concern of French political life. However, there is no universal and unique definition of financial distress. This paper presents a synthesis of some possible definitions and display the real importance...