We analyze the interaction of …rm product quality and pricing decisions with …nancial distress and bankruptcy in the airline industry. We consider an airline’s choice of quality and price as dynamic decisions that trade o¤ current cash ‡ows for future revenue. We examine how airline mishandled baggage, on-time performance and pricing are related to …nancial distress and bankruptcy, controlling ...

Redistributive Taxation and Personal Bankruptcy in US States Both personal bankruptcy and redistributive taxes can insure households’ consumption risk and both vary considerably across US states. We derive sufficient conditions under which more redistributive taxation makes bankruptcy exemptions less attractive both for the intratemporal insurance and for inter-temporal consumption smoothing. E...

A much higher fraction of U.S. households would benefit financially from bankruptcy than actually file. While the current bankruptcy filing rate is about 1% of households each year, I calculate that at least 15% of households would benefit financially from filing and the actual figure would be several times higher if most households plan in advance for the possibility of filing. Two explanation...

Bankruptcy prediction has been addressed by many researchers in the field of finance since few decades. One of the best approaches to deal with this issue is considering it as a classification problem. In this paper a time series prediction model of bankruptcy via Adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is formulated, which is capable of predicting the bankruptcy of a firm for any future ...

Over the last two decades, both bankruptcy and obesity rates in the U.S. have seen a steady rise. As obesity is one of the leading causes of medical and morbidity related economic costs, its influence on personal bankruptcy is analyzed in this study. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we employ a duration model to investigate the relative importance of obesity on the timing o...

A commonly held belief of game theorists is that the pre-nucleolus of the modest bankruptcy game is identical to the pre-nucleolus of its dual game, the greedy bankruptcy game. In this paper we provide some results that indicate that this belief is false. We establish some non-coincidence results of the pre-kernel and pre-nucleolus of the modest bankruptcy game with respect to the pre-kernel an...

Because of the recent surge in U.S. personal defaults, Congress is currently debating bankruptcy reform legislation requiring a means test for Chapter 7 filers. This paper explores the effects of such a reform in a model where, in contrast to previous work, bankruptcy options and production are explicitly taken into account. Our findings indicate that means testing would not improve upon curren...

We construct a comprehensive dataset of patent sales conducted by all US public firms in Chapter 11 bankruptcy from 1981 to 2012. We document that 40% of firms sell, on average, 18% of their patents during bankruptcy reorganizations. Innovation sales concentrate in the first two quarters after bankruptcy filing. Firms sell more redeployable and liquid patents, as opposed to selling underexploit...

Both bankruptcy regulation and redistributive taxation vary considerably across US states. We model the interactions between these two policies: redistributive taxation targets intratemporal inequality whereas asset exemptions in bankruptcy procedures help agents to smooth consumption across time. We derive sufficient conditions under which more redistributive taxation makes bankruptcy exemptio...

I develop a new predictive approach using Bayesian model averaging to account for incomplete knowledge of the true model behind corporate bankruptcy. I find that uncertainty over the correct model is empirically large, with far fewer variables significant predictors of bankruptcy compared to conventional approaches. Only the ratio of total liabilities to total assets and the volatility of marke...