While prior papers have examined the impact of state exemption and garnishment laws on the average household, this paper is the first to examine their heterogeneous impact. In my theoretical model, households choose between three options: repayment, bankruptcy, and informal bankruptcy (non-repayment without the benefit of the formal bankruptcy process). The model makes two predictions about the...

6007 Background: The risk of bankruptcy for cancer patients is not well characterized and may vary by cancer type, treatment, and personal factors. Linking the Washington State SEER registry with Western District of Washington bankruptcy court records, we measured the rate of bankruptcy after cancer and identified factors that increased risk among common cancers. METHODS We included adults ag...

With the recent financial crisis and European debt crisis, corporate bankruptcy prediction has become an increasingly important issue for financial institutions. Many statistical and intelligent methods have been proposed, however, there is no overall best method has been used in predicting corporate bankruptcy. Recent studies suggest ensemble learning methods may have potential applicability i...

In this paper we analyze the relationship between strictness of employment protection and efficiency of bankruptcy law. We argue that country’s legal tradition provides the appropriate institutional proxy to explain the nature of such relationship. We find that for civil law countries where bankruptcy procedures are more inefficient a stricter employment protection policy is enforced. For commo...

We examine whether individuals are influenced to file for bankruptcy by the past bankruptcies of their close neighbors. We find that a one standard deviation increase in neighborhood bankruptcies increases the probability of defaulting via bankruptcy rather than via credit card charge-off by 6%. Our individual level data on defaulters is from detailed credit card accounts, which is matched to n...

the development of the cyprus stock exchange together with the increasing trend of investors’ presence in financing activities has led to the importance of this market. in such circumstances, the first step towards a sustainable development of the exchange is to support the investors. risk of bankruptcy for the investee is a major challenge that an inexperienced stock investor encounters. in th...

Bankruptcy prediction is a major issue in classification of companies. Since bankruptcy is extremely costly, investors, owners, managers, creditors, and government agencies are interested in evaluating the financial status of companies. This study tried to predict bankruptcy among companies registered in Tehran Stock Exchange (Iran) by designing imperialist competitive algorithm and genetic alg...

We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity‐debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors’ fiduciary duties in that state. This change limited incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt. We show that, as predicted, this increased the likelihood ...

The economic approach to bankruptcy envisions bankruptcy law as a set of rules approximating the contractual terms to which, at the time credit is extended, a creditor and debtor would agree should govern in the event of the debtor's insolvency. Some traditional bankruptcy scholars criticize the economic approach for what they see as its failure to advance goals and values which they deem neces...

BANKRUPTCY REFORM’S ROLE IN THE MORTGAGE CRISIS This paper argues that the U.S. bankruptcy reform of 2005 played an important role in the mortgage crisis and the current recession. When debtors file for bankruptcy, credit card debt and other types of debt are discharged — thus loosening debtors’ budget constraints. Homeowners in financial distress can therefore use bankruptcy to avoid losing th...