Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of South Carolina, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 104-113).

Submitted by Rafael Ferreira (rafaelvxf@fgvmail.br) on 2011-03-22T17:57:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertation2.pdf: 309532 bytes, checksum: 71b1ba5388b33b95e83a99f8833db32e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Andrea Virginio Machado(andrea.machado@fgv.br) on 2011-03-22T18:33:06Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertation2.pdf: 309532 bytes, checksum: 71b1ba5388b33b95e83a99f8833db32e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-03-31T17:40:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertation2.pdf: 309532 bytes, checksum: 71b1ba5388b33b95e83a99f8833db32e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-12-15 / In early 2005 a new bankruptcy law was approved by the Brazilian Congress, taking effect a few months later. The new legislation improved creditor protection and the bankruptcy system’s efficiency. This paper tries to shed some light on the empirical consequences of a bankruptcy reform on a poorly developed credit market. Using data from Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean and Mexican firms, we estimated two diff-in-diff models with differential trends: one with a firm-specific trend and the other with a country-specific macro trend. Both models yielded similar results. We found significant impacts on the supply of credit, the cost of debt, and the supply of secured, unsecured and long-term debt. No significant impacts were found for the level of short-term debt. / No início de 2005, uma nova Lei de Falências foi aprovada pelo Congresso Nacional, entrando em meados de junho do mesmo ano. A nova legislação ampliou o grau de proteção ao credor em muitos aspectos. Este artigo busca investigar algumas das consequências empíricas dessa nova lei sobre o mercado de crédito, utilizado dados de firmas argentinas, brasileiras, chilenas e mexicanas para estimar dois modelos para dados em painel: o primeiro com tendências específicas para cada firma e o outro com tendência macro comum às firmas de um mesmo país. A estimação dos dois modelos produziu resultados similares. Foram encontrados impactos significativos sobre a oferta de crédito, o custo da dívida e a oferta de crédito segurado, não-segurado e de longo prazo. Não foram encontrados impactos sobre o total de dívida de curto prazo.

In the current economic situation is decline frequently very well-known term. For many corporate and individual person is a condition that frightening them very often (on every single step). Nowadays more and more people consider this term is almost an insult. And for a while i decided to analyze this problem and possibilities of solution and described it in detail. Author devoted to different options of resolve decline. This unflattering situation affects first of all debtor. He must accept these unpleasant action in his life. In considerable percentage of decline debtor is losing his movable and immovable property. From the other side, there is affected considerably by the creditors.

The main objective of this work is to clarify and define causes, which led to decline of the Váhostav - SK, a. s., review completed reorganization of the company and give overall look on the reorganization possibilities in Slovakia, compared to the possibilities of reorganization in Czech Republic. The work is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part contains a brief look on the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Act in Slovakia, with the main focus being on the restructuring process. The practical part is divided into two parts, first one describes restructuring of Váhostav - SK, a. s. The second part contains a critical view on the Slovak Bankruptcy and Restructuring Act, which is compared to the Czech Insolvency Act, where the main focus is still on the process of reorganization.

Thesis deals with reorganization. The goal is to identify its weaknesess as a form of bankrupcy solution, factors impending wider usage and suggest improvements. The first chapter is devoted to the legislation of reorganization effective from the 1st January of 2014 with reference to the changes brought by it. The second chapter aims to map existing practice. Thus, what is the position of reorganization as a form of bankrupcy solution. The initial impact of the amendment to the Insolvency Act will be evaluated on a basis of available statistics. The most important findings are summarized in the conclusion.

In the diploma thesis we are examining possibilities of utilization of financial standing models and bankruptcy models for the purpose of prediction of financial distress of a company. We start the analysis with a broad description of methods provided by financial analyses used for prediction of the financial distress, followed by a more particular investigation into the problematics of financial standing and bankruptcy models. In the thesis we aim to define 9 of these models including their variations followed by application onto four companies in the time scale of five years up front the incoming financial distress. Whilst applying the models we will have a closer look at the discrepancies coming from the different nature of the predictive formulas, meanwhile observing how the key changes in financial statements transfer into the scores. Moreover, we will try to point out the key elements causing deformation in the relevance of the models. In the conclusion we will summarize the findings and confront the assumptions.

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The long awaited insolvency act in force - Act 182/2006 Coll., changed the whole insolvency process by enabling new solutions to handle corporate insolvency issues. Among the most revolutionary features is the facilitation of a reorganization process. The thesis focuses on legal and economic aspects of the reorganization framework and compares it with the possibility solution of bankruptcy liquidation. The thesis analyzes the reorganizations of company called Kordarna, a.s. and also three subsidiary firms belonging to the KORD Group companies, which have been the first major test of the reorganization framework under the current Czech Insolvency Act. After the analysis of the procedural steps throughout the insolvency proceedings, the thesis arrives at a conclusion that given the circumstances, the chosen reorganization procedure was the best possible solution to Kordarna's insolvency for all classes of creditors and also other involved stakeholders. Moreover, the slow pace of the process is also discussed in detail. An important conclusion is reached in the field of bankruptcy estate valuation, where the thesis claims that the values of bankruptcy estates valuations were unrealistically high, because the adverse impact of the current extraordinary asset market conditions was never fully considered.

The diploma work is describing the structure, process and the goal of an bankruptcy trial including its economical outcomes and some accounting impacts on the debtor as well as on the creditor. It also explains fundamental terms of this situation such as "property substance", bankruptcy register or the way of registering the receivables to the trial. The following part of this work is applying to the defintion and postition describtion of each bankruptcy trial participant as well as the court as such. Next topic is explaining phases of the trial and possible ways of solving bankruptcy or brewing bankruptcy which the czech bankruptcy law enables. The practical part of this diploma work explains the process of one of the way of solving insolvency - bankruptcy with some tax impacts on the debtor.

In Sweden, firms that file for bankruptcy are all auctioned off either piecemeal or as going concerns. Upon filing, managers lose control of the firm. In contrast, in the U.S. managers retain control by selecting to renegotiate the financial claims on the firm under court-supervision (Chapter 11). This thesis addresses the ongoing debate as to whether a Chapter 11-style renegotiation option is valuable to the firm’s securityholders. The optimal bankruptcy system depends on how well the auction system itself functions as well as on the extent to which managers misuse the renegotiation option to their own benefit (the agency problem). While there is substantial evidence on Chapter 11 cases, the thesis provides some first evidence on the workings of a pure auction system using Swedish data. The first essay examines direct costs, creditor recovery rates and auction premiums in Sweden, and compares the results to extant evidence on U.S. Chapter 11 cases. Overall, the results suggest that mandatory auctions provide a relatively cost-efficient bankruptcy procedure, producing recovery rates that are similar to those reported for much larger firms in Chapter 11. Moreover, auction premiums are significant and tend to increase with industry distress, which contradicts arguments that financially distressed firms sell assets below their true value. The second essay provides some first evidence on managerial compensation, turnover and corporate performance following Swedish bankruptcy auctions. The evidence indicates that mandatory auctions act as a substantial managerial disciplinary force: CEOs typically incur significant compensation losses and a majority of CEOs lose their job through the auction. Nevertheless, the operating profitability of the auctioned firms is typically at par with industry norms. Thus, although CEO wealth effects and turnover rates are dramatic, there is little support for the argument that managers in an auction bankruptcy system tend to delay filing at the detriment of the firm's going concern value. Essays three and four take a broader perspective on corporate restructurings. The third essay examines alternative econometric explanations for the lack of stock market gains to bidder firms reported in the literature. The analysis, which uses a large sample of Canadian targets, provides new evidence consistent with the proposition that the measured gains to relatively large, frequent acquirors reflect an attenuation bias produced by event-study econometrics. Moreover, the results suggest that mergers between relatively equal-sized firms, and which have not generated anticipation of future acquisition activity, tend to produce significantly positive bidder gains. This supports the use of mergers also as an alternative to bankruptcy. / <p>Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 1998</p>