This is the first paper that highlights the role of spatial interactions, in the context of state bankruptcy laws, in the entrepreneurship decision. The focus of the paper is on small businesses. Small and medium enterprises represent between 96 percent to 99 percent of all enterprises in the US. This paper asks whether laws that facilitate easy exit are an important consideration in entry of s...

In this paper we solve the problem of determining the default time of a firm in such a way as to maximize its total value, which includes bankruptcy costs and tax benefits, with the condition that the value of equity must be nonnegative. By applying dynamic programming in discrete time, we find results which extends those of Merton (1974), and we give an application for the approximation of mod...

This paper examines how a firm’s financial distress and the legal environment regarding the ease of bankruptcy reorganization can alter product market competition and supplier-buyer relationships. We identify three effects, predation, bail-out, and abetment, that can change firms’ behavior from their actions in the absence of financial distress. The predation effect increases competition before...

Aims: This study aimed at predicting bankruptcy based on two data mining techniques, i.e. logistic regression and classification and regression tree (CART). Study design: This was an applied, descriptiveanalytical, cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: This research was carried out in Iran. Annual financial statements of companies in Tehran stock market (Iran) during 1999-2010 wer...

This paper examines the relationship between debt contract and the process of resolving financial distress, through either debt restructuring or bankruptcy procedure. It effectively justifies the popularity of the standard debt contract by demonstrating that the standard debt contract is the optimal debt contract for small business with the costly random verification scheme. Although this resul...

More socially efficient results obtain where the current liquidation value of the assets is low. In this situation, the parties will each retain shares of the reorganized firm based on the bargain that they reach. Assuming that both the creditor and the managers have the same discount rate, they will split the value of the firm equally. This being the case, the managers now have the incentive t...

Closely related to financial risk assessment, one of the main concerns of the organizations should be the evaluation of bankruptcy risk, in this period of slow economic growth. Organization bankruptcies have increased in recent years worldwide. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the methods and models for forecasting bankruptcy of organizations, for the bankruptcy risk assessment are ...

Consumer debt and bankruptcy are central issues today because of their explosive trends over the last 20 years in the U.S. economy. However, there is no convincing explanation for these facts. A drop in information costs, a potential cause, has not been evaluated mainly because there is no quantitative theory of consumer debt and bankruptcy where the cost of information plays an important role....

0950-7051/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.knosys.2011.06.008 ⇑ Corresponding author at: Key Laboratory of Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, 130012, China. E-mail addresses: [email protected], liudayou19420 Bankruptcy prediction is one of the most important issues in financial decision-making. Constructing effective corporate bankruptcy prediction models in tim...