The website, Plastic Jungle, is taking advantage of the rapidly growing gift card phenomena by creating a secondary market that enables consumers to buy, sell, and exchange gift cards online at a discount. This paper examines the relationship between this secondary gift card market and the corporate bankruptcy risk of companies with gift cards listed on the market. When a company issues a gift card, the card is unsecured debt and the cardholder becomes an unsecured creditor to the company. This paper investigates whether the cardholder acts similarly to other unsecured creditors or as someone who is merely holding another form of cash. As was expected, this paper finds evidence indicating the spot price on the gift card is correlated to some forms of bankruptcy risk. Specifically, the gift cardholders act like unsecured creditors in terms of excess stock returns, CDS price, and the idiosyncratic risk of companies.

This diploma thesis with the titled Creditors' claims in Insolvency proceeding deals with the possibility of setting up the claims of creditors in case that the court declared the debtor insolvent and was therefore initiated insolvency proceeding according to the Act no. 182/2006 Col., on Insolvency and Its Resolution (Insolvency Act). The introduction of the thesis also pays attention to other possibilities of enforcing and lodging the claims whether in extrajudicial proceedings or in proceedings before the court by filing an action against the debtor or in proceedings before the court or arbitration and subsequent recovery options of enforceable claims. The main aim of this thesis is to present a detailed analysis of the process of submission of claims in insolvency proceedings from the moment of initiation of the proceeding through submission of the claims to the insolvency court to their reviewing and their possible denial (together with adversary disputes) or their finding and final satisfaction. The chapter that describes the different types of claims is also closely related to the process of submitting, reviewing and satisfaction of claims as the type of the claim may determine whole process of its submission and satisfaction in the insolvency proceeding. Last chapters describe the satisfaction of admitted claims depending to the chosen method of the insolvency resolution and the destiny of unsatisfied of claims when the insolvency proceeding is over. At the end of the thesis is a practical example that should illustrate the procedure of filling the Claim submission form, including all elements of formal and content requirements.