The Czech Republic is a country whose economy has undergone a transformation since 1989. Since joining the EU it has been striving to reduce the differences in its economic standard and the quality of its institutional environment in comparison with developed countries. According to an assessment carried out by the World Bank, the Czech Republic was long classed as a country whose institutional...

Prior to the enactment of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) of 2005, United States bankruptcy law provided a number of different mechanisms designed to both facilitate credit markets and provide some measure of consumption insurance. The interplay between chapter 7 and chapter 13 discharge procedures in particular influenced debtor behavior such that debtors s...

BACKGROUND Massachusetts' recent health reform has decreased the number of uninsured, but no study has examined medical bankruptcy rates before and after the reform was implemented. METHODS In 2009, we surveyed 199 Massachusetts bankruptcy filers regarding medical antecedents of their financial collapse using the same questions as in a 2007 survey of 2314 debtors nationwide, including 44 in M...

We introduce a new class of bankruptcy problems in which the value of the estate is endogenous and depends on agents’ investment decisions. There are two investment alternatives: investing in a company (risky asset) and depositing money into a savings account (risk-free asset). Bankruptcy is possible only for the risky asset. We define a game between agents each of which aims to maximize his ex...

The Enron Corporation went from a $65 billion dollar market capitalization to bankruptcy in just 16 months. Using statistical techniques for extracting the implied probability distributions built into option prices, I examine the market’s expectation of Enron’s risk of collapse. I find that the options market remained far too optimistic about the stock until just weeks before their bankruptcy f...

KLEPÁČ VÁCLAV, HAMPEL DAVID. 2016. Prediction of Bankruptcy with SVM Classifi ers Among Retail Business Companies in EU. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 64(2): 627–634. Article focuses on the prediction of bankruptcy of the 850 medium-sized retail business companies in EU from which 48 companies gone bankrupt in 2014 with respect to lag of the used featur...

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...

Bankruptcy is a highly significant worldwide problem with high social costs. Traditional bankruptcy risk models have been criticized for falling short with respect to bankruptcy theory building due to either modeling assumptions or model complexity. Genetic programming minimizes the amount of a priori structure that is associated with traditional functional forms and statistical selection proce...

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...