bankruptcy
RSS bankruptcyThe Reacquisition of Credit following Chapter 7 Personal Bankruptcy
White Paper This paper maps out the bankruptcy-related financial constraint by tracking the credit files of a large panel of consumers who filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the previous ten years and another panel who did not. [03 Jul 2008]
The Personal-Tax Advantages of Equity
White Paper When this model is calibrated to the empirical distribution of pre-tax free cash flows computed using the estimates in Fama and French (1999), the optimal capital structure is interior with a 3% bankruptcy cost. [03 Jul 2008]
Decentralization and the Challenge of Hard Budget Constraints
White Paper Indeed, they can facilitate it by promoting local revenue collection, improving information, accounting, and auditing, implementing and enforcing limits on borrowing to cover current spending, and clarifying bankruptcy procedures. [10 Apr 2008]
Top five takeovers that shook the tech world
News Unfortunately Worldcom filed for bankruptcy in 2002, becoming the biggest corporate failure in US history after it failed to survive a brutal consumer price war. Microsoft last week launched a hostile $44.6bn takeover bid to buy web giant Yahoo! [04 Feb 2008]
Testing Exchangeability On-Line
White Paper The authors introduce the notion of exchangeability martingales, which are online procedures for detecting deviations from exchangeability; in essence, they are betting schemes that never risk bankruptcy and are fair under the hypothesis of... [06 Nov 2007]
Bankruptcy agency seals £20m IBM deal
News The UK's Insolvency Service has signed a £20m outsourcing deal with IBM to modernise its IT infrastructure and reduce costs. The Insolvency Service is the government department responsible for investigating companies and bankruptcies. [09 Oct 2007]
Evesham pins bankruptcy blame on Brown
News Evesham Technology fell into administration on Friday, blaming the business' troubles on the government's decision to axe the Home Computer Initiative. As a consequence, 150 staff will lose their jobs at the Worcestershire-based company. [07 Aug 2007]
Vonage gets 'stay of execution' over new customers
News The company has already admitted in a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing that its legal woes could lead to bankruptcy, and it was losing customers even before the jury revealed its decision in the Verizon case. [25 Apr 2007]
Verizon vs Vonage: Patent battle back in court
News The company also admitted in a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the ongoing legal battles over patent disputes could eventually lead to liquidation of the company's assets under bankruptcy protection. [24 Apr 2007]
BenQ Mobile goes under?
News Under German law, a company has three months' grace after filing for bankruptcy before formal insolvency proceedings begin. Attempts to save BenQ Mobile from liquidation appear to have failed. Insolvency proceedings were opened in Germany yesterday... [02 Jan 2007]
Disaster Recovery on a Budget: Learn How an Enterprise Solved Its Storage Needs Through Replication Software
White Paper At the time the company was making upgrade decisions, it had also filed for bankruptcy. Any major financial outlays had to meet the approval of the bankruptcy judge. Covanta Energy Corp.produces more than 800 megawatts of energy annually by... [01 Jan 2007]
Oracle Case Study: Owens Corning
White Paper Preparing to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the company needed to quickly and dramatically increase productivity and reduce costs. Owens Corning began to look for ways to position itself as a stronger and more viable company. [13 Dec 2006]
Extradition warning to all UK tech execs
News In Crook's case he is charged, along with other Peregrine executives, of conspiring in an accounting fraud and attempted cover-up that led to the software company filing for bankruptcy protection, which wiped $4bn off its share value. [22 Nov 2006]
Extradited UK tech chief's trial delayed until 2008
News The indictment alleges that Crook and other Peregrine executives conspired in an accounting fraud and attempted cover-up that led to the software company filing for bankruptcy protection, which wiped $4bn off its share value. [21 Nov 2006]
'Tech industry must aid Al-Qaeda fight'
News Reid said: "Al-Qaeda's threat to bleed us to bankruptcy is clear. Home Secretary John Reid has called on the security and technology industries to aid the UK government's counter-terrorist efforts. Speaking at an anti-terror technology conference... [01 Nov 2006]
