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This study investigates the ability of three versions of Altman's Z-Score model (Z, Z', and Z”) of distress prediction developed in the U.S. to predict the corporate distress in the emerging market of Sri Lanka. The results show that these models have a remarkable degree of accuracy in...
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This paper studies the survival outcomes experienced over a 14-year period by a comprehensive sample of group-affiliated U.S. property-casualty insurance companies from 1994. While it is generally assumed that affiliate support enhances the financial strength of a subsidiary within a group, this...
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Building on the work of Sorge and Virolainen (2006), we revisit the data on aggregate Finnish bank loan losses from the corporate sector, which covers the ‘Big Five' crisis in Finland in the early 1990s. Several extensions to the empirical model are considered. These extensions are then used...
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makes bankruptcy costly for employees. This paper examines whether firms take these costs into account when deciding on the … probability of bankruptcy by operating with lower debt ratios. Moreover, we observe that firms with better employee track records …
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This paper examines the performance of two commonly applied bankruptcy prediction models, the accounting ratio … distinguish companies most likely to file for bankruptcy from those least likely to file for bankruptcy as measured by the … Accuracy Ratio2. The cardinal ability of each model to predict bankruptcy as measured by the bankruptcy rate of healthy …
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seek to preserve financial stability and ensure continuity of critical functions. The same cannot be said of insolvency …, insolvency law has largely remained microprudential and reactive.Admittedly, unlike bank failures, corporate insolvencies usually … trigger contagion and cause disruptive consequences. Insofar as insolvency of SNFEs raises concerns common to bank failures …
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design of evidence-based policies in the presence of market failures, for example optimal bankruptcy laws. We believe our …
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Employees bear significant costs in bankruptcy. Theoretical models predict they will accept lower wages in the face of …
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We estimate the costs of financial distress prior to default (pre-default costs) separately from the loss incurred at default (the loss given default) using a dynamic trade-off model of capital structure. We document that pre-default costs are on average equal to 6.5% of firm value per year. We...
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We investigate how idiosyncratic lender shocks impact corporate investment. Lenders with recent default experience write stricter loan contracts, leading to a reduction in real investment for borrowing firms. The decline in investment is not attributable to loan riskiness, borrower's agency...
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