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...

This paper investigates how, in a developing country, where credit market and legal institutions are weak, firms' choice of organization form, i.e., noncorporate versus corporate, affects their access to capital markets. I use data from Indonesian manufacturers from 1992 to 1998 to show that incorporated firms are less reliant on internal financing than unincorporated firms. Moreover, a 1995 re...

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...

This paper analyses the ability of some structural models to predict corporate bankruptcy. The study extends the existing empirical work on default risk in three ways. First, it estimates the expected default probabilities and computes default correlations using a copula function for a sample of bankrupt in the US. Second, it extracts common or latent factors that drive companies’ default corre...

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...

The paper studies the effects of non-exclusivity of credit card contracts on the provision of insurance through the institution of personal bankruptcy. In our model, lenders can continually observe borrower’s time-varying creditworthiness and provide credit to them by undercutting (poaching) the existing lender(s). Contracts are non-exclusive and, to rollover their debt, borrowers may accept mu...

This paper studies financial policy, investment decisions and the threat of dismissal when managers value control and investments generate manager-specific value. A high probability of investigation focuses the manager on the profitability of replacement and therefore managerspecific value. The probability of an investigation increases when the firm enters bankruptcy. Thus, high debt levels foc...