PURPOSE Patients with cancer are more likely to file for bankruptcy than the general population, but the impact of severe financial distress on health outcomes among patients with cancer is not known. METHODS We linked Western Washington SEER Cancer Registry records with federal bankruptcy records for the region. By using propensity score matching to account for differences in several demogra...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is an effective tool for supporting decision-makers to assess bankruptcy, uncertainty concepts including intervals, and game theory. The bankruptcy problem with the qualitative parameters is an economic problem under uncertainty. Accordingly, we combine the concepts of the DEA game theory and uncertain models as interval linear programming (ILP), which can be app...

Some of the parameters in issues of the reality world are uncertainty. One of the uncertain problems with the qualitative parameters is economic problems such as bankruptcy problem. In this case, there is a probability of dealing with imprecise concepts including the intervals regarding the official’s viewpoint, organizations’ managers. Accordingly, this article uses the concepts of data envelo...

Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) imposed stringent requirements on Key Employee Retention Plan (KERP) adoptions and implicitly favored Performance Incentive Plans (PIPs) in the amended Chapter 11. We use court documents to differentiate between retention versus performance incentive plans, and examine their impact on bankruptcy resolution before and after...

We analyse an economy where principals and agents match and contract subject to moral hazard. Bankruptcy law defines the limited liability constraint in these contracts. We analyse Walrasian allocations to generate the following predictions: (i) weakening bankruptcy law causes redistribution of debt and welfare from poor agents and principals to rich agents; (ii) exemption limits Pareto-dominat...

A test of adverse events and strategic timing theories can be conducted by determining whether some relevant financial decision variables, such as financial benefit from filing for bankruptcy, or debt discharged in bankruptcy are endogenous with the bankruptcy decision or not. For the strategic timing theory such decisions are endogenous, while for the adverse events theory they are not. Hausma...

This paper demonstrates the important role of job displacement in the household bankruptcy decision. I develop a dynamic, forward-looking model of unemployment and bankruptcy where persistent negative income shocks increase a household’s likelihood of filing for bankruptcy both immediately and in the future. Consistent with the model’s predictions, I find that households in the NLSY are four ti...

-Signs of a potential business bankruptcy are evident well before actual bankruptcy occurs. For managers, creditors, and all other concerned parties this lag allows time to take remedial action. Therefore, building models, which signal approaching financial failure, have been an important part of corporate finance literature, in order to help management refocus their energy, revaluate their cor...

During the 2008 financial crisis, general municipalities' across the United States began considering bankruptcy as a means for resolving systemic budget crises. This signified a substantial shift in the relationship between municipalities and Chapter 9 of the federal bankruptcy code. Until 2008, few general municipalities filed under Chapter 9. Special utility districts filed most Chapter 9 pet...