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This paper studies bankruptcy spillover effects onto portfolios of non-bankrupt firms in oil and gas industry. Using hand-collected data on bankruptcy filings in oil and gas industry from 2000 to 2017, I find that, on average, the value-weighted portfolios of non-bankrupt oil and gas firms...
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We study the endogenous determination of corporate debt maturity in a setting with default risk. We assume that firms must access the bond market and they issue debt with a flexible structure (coupon, face value, and maturity). Initially, the firm is in a low growth/illiquid state that requires...
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liquidation during the debt settlement process. We examine the effect of changes to these protection laws on bank lending to small …
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In 2011, German legislators passed the latest reform to German Insolvency Law (ESUG). ESUG mandates that creditors of … larger firms can exert more influence on the appointment of the insolvency administrator, resulting in a shift of power from …
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Prior scholarship points to valuation disputes and valuation error as key drivers of Chapter 11 outcomes. Avoiding valuation disputes and errors is also the underlying driver of most proposed reforms, from Baird's auctions to Bebchuk's options. In this paper, we undertake a detailed examination...
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financing policies, and the exposure of bank assets to crashes. The effect of the prevailing insolvency resolution mechanism … (IRM) on the probability of insolvency, loss in default, and the net value created by the bank suggests no single IRM is a …We present a dynamic, continuous-time model in which risk averse inside equityholders set a bank's lending, payout, and …
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We examine the ex ante effect of an exogenous reduction in secured creditor rights on corporate financial and investment policy. We find that firms increase corporate leverage using both the reduced distress costs of secured debt and the positive externalities the lower secured creditor rights...
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I study how firms adjust leverage, maturity and cash to manage rollover risk, and show that time-variation in concentration of maturity dates arises endogenously. To avoid rollover risk, firms prefer long-term debt with dispersed maturity dates. However, severe negative shocks force firms to...
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Forecasting corporate bankruptcy constitutes an integral and relevant part of financial statement analysis and business valuation. Typically the evaluation of a risk of financial default is based on some ratios, including company's indebtedness. However, there are various versions of such...
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As of today there are a lot of well-known bankruptcy prediction models. Scientists have been paying much attention to the development of bankruptcy prediction models since 1970. However, most of them are unable to predict bankruptcy, thereby making it impossible for firms to prevent it today....
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